Is Harm Reduction Possible?
Editor’s note: The following remarks were delivered at the Risk: Regulation and Reality Conference by Dr. Michael Kunze, Professor of Public Health, University of Vienna (Austria). The conference was co-hosted by Tech Central Station and was held on October 7, 2004 in Toronto, ON. Dr. Michael Kunze: Thank you, Chairman, you must speak at my funeral, it was so beautiful. But, I mean, listening to the Chairman and the other two speakers, I find out why I was invited. Because I’m German speaking, and the German language has a beautiful word for all that risk fear, it’s angst. German angst. Germans always have angst. Angst that the Russians may come. Well, they didn’t come by military forces, now they come into Vienna and the rest of the German speaking country and spend a hell of a lot of money. Then they had angst that the Chinese will come, and they didn’t come, but they will come and buy all Europe if they continue like that. Now the Germans have angst that the American troops will lea
