The Principles Of Harm Reduction Practices (1)
- Accepting, for better or worse, that illicit drug use is part of our world and choosing to work to minimize its harmful effects rather than simply ignore or condemn.
- Understanding drug use as a complex, multi-faceted phenomenon that encompasses a continuum of behaviors from servere use to total abstinence, acknowledging that some ways of using drugs are clearly safer than others.
- Establish quality of individual, community life and wellbeing – not necessarily cessation of all drug use – as criteria for successful intervention and policies.
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