Clinical harm reduction nurse Linda Macleod said steroids users would be offered advice on exercise and nutrition.
Now consider that science actually has the means to dramatically reduce this public health catastrophe: tobacco harm reduction.
Gilbert Ross finds that public health regulators, through willfull resistance of tobacco harm reduction strategies, are killing smokers.
The new council announced a different approach to drugs, involving harm reduction and treatment as well as enforcement.
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It has been set up by the health board's harm reduction service and will be held every Wednesday evening from 18 May.
Presumably, in the name of harm reduction, public systems might try charging less for the earlier semesters and more for the later ones.
Telling users not to take drugs can often be counter productive he said adding that a "harm reduction" message and information is key.
Measures proposed in the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England involve voluntary action by alcohol producers and retailers, and action from the government, police and councils.
"Federal treatment funds should not be diverted to short-term 'harm reduction' efforts like needle exchange programs, " according to a statement from the president's drug control czar, Gen.
Last year, Alcohol Concern called for parents who give alcohol to children aged under 15 to be prosecuted in its report on the government's Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy.
Relaxing, not tightening, strictures against harm reduction products should be implemented in the EU, and as soon as possible, as thousands die needlessly each day from inhaling smoke.
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The key fact in the harm reduction equation is that nicotine is not the harmful component of cigarettes, something that CFTFK and Altria ought to know by now.
Tobacco harm reduction advocates the use of reduced-risk nicotine products, which allows addicted smokers to curtail their smoking without forcing them to eliminate nicotine altogether an extraordinarily difficult task.
As applied in other areas of public health, the benefits of harm reduction are well known: the idea is to reduce the health consequences of a substance or behavior without demanding complete abstinence from it.
Dena Davis, a law and ethics professor at Cleveland State University and the legal consultant on the AAP's policy review, says that she personally favours considering a symbolic cut, because of the potential for harm reduction.
Yet, in a perversion of science-based public health policy, the truth about effective methods to help more smokers quit has been ignored, indeed suppressed, by our public health authorities who continually deny the mountain of epidemiological evidence pointing to the benefits of tobacco harm reduction.
But the federal government refused to renew the exemption in 2008, arguing that "harm-reduction" programmes diverted funding from addiction-treatment programmes.
Treating drug addiction as a public-health problem (emphasising treatment and harm-reduction) rather than a crime to be punished would go a long way towards making America's poor and minority communities stabler and better.
Democrats responded that the Ryan proposal would harm economic growth by shifting the burden of deficit reduction to middle-class Americans, the elderly and others, while cutting spending for college loans, infrastructure development, scientific research and other areas vital for job creation.
However, he said the reduction of "adverse incidents that cause, or could have caused unexpected harm to patients and clients" remained a core responsibility for the trusts and the Department of Health.
Ever since a resurgent Republican Party forced the Obama Administration to focus on deficit reduction in the aftermath of the 2010 midterm elections, experts have been warning that big budget cuts would harm the military.
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