Harm reduction principles for healthcare settings
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Harm reduction principles for healthcare settings
BACKGROUND Harm reduction refers to interventions aimed at reducing the negative effects of health behaviors without necessarily extinguishing the problematic health behaviors completely. The vast majority of the harm reduction literature focuses on the harms of drug use and on specific harm reduction strategies, such as syringe exchange, rather than on the harm reduction philosophy as a whole....
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عنوان ژورنال: Harm Reduction Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1477-7517
DOI: 10.1186/s12954-017-0196-4