Exploring Harm Reduction: Heroin Clinics & Syringe Exchange Programs

Exploring Harm Reduction: Heroin Clinics & Syringe Exchange Programs Over the next two weeks we will be analyzing different components of harm reduction responses to the opioid epidemic. Harm reduction involves strategies and tools that reduce the negative consequences of drug use. Many harm reduction responses that have been proposed and administered worldwide are not without controversy, as many see it as enabling those with substance abuse disorder. For example, here in the United States, Philadelphia created the first ever supervised “safe injection” sites in an attempt to prevent overdose deaths. Continue Reading

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