‘Harm reduction’ is often made an unnecessarily controversial issue as if there was a contradiction between prevention and treatment on one hand and reducing the adverse health and social consequences of drug use on the other. This is a false dichotomy. They are complementary.
- Harm reduction
Recommended interventions in the UNODC discussion paper include: “b. low-threshold pharmacological interventions (example opioid-agonists and antagonist drugs), not directly related to drug-free oriented programmes, but to immediate health protection, have to be easily accessible;” “f. needle/syringe exchange programmes (...)”
- Harm reduction