A drug is a substance that produces a psychoactive, chemical or medicinal effect on the
user. The psychoactive effect of mood-altering drugs is modulated by the user's perception …

Harm reduction attempts to reduce the adverse consequences of drug use among persons
who continue to use drugs. It developed in response to the excesses of a “zero tolerance …

Since the First International Conference on the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm, held in
1990, the term'harm reduction'has gained wide currency in the areas of public health and …

This chapter outlines the basic principles, assumptions, and values of the harm reduction
approach to drug abuse and describes how it differs from traditional drug policies and …

Harm reduction, an alternative to both drug legalization and drug prohibition, seeks to
preserve prohibition by keeping the supply of drugs illegal while softening some of the harsh …

The meaning of the term “harm reduction” has changed over the decades of its existence but
it is now increasingly being aligned with public health approaches. An agreed meaning for …

The purpose of this paper is to describe what harm reduction is, how it developed, how it
works, and why it is becoming a major approach in the addictive behaviors field. Based on …

This paper examines the role of clinical practitioners and clinical researchers internationally
in establishing the utility of harm-reduction approaches to substance use. It thus illustrates …

The prevention and reduction of harm related to the use and distribution of psychoactive
substances has gone through three stages in the last 35 years of this century. The first saw …

On the basis of the harm reduction movement's founding texts from the beginning of the
1990s, this paper reflects the movement's self-understanding in contrasting itself with the …