What are harm reduction programs?
Harm reduction is the concept that has developed to supplement the three other main pillars of the drug problem responses: the first of these being control–police, prison, and so on; the second being prevention, telling people not to use drugs, or how to use drugs safely, or to wait until they are a certain age to use drugs, and so on, and the third being treatment. At one point, harm reduction came in as the “little sister.” It was conceived of in Britain. At one place in Britain at Merseyside, close to Liverpool, the chain Marks and Spencers noticed that there was very little theft in their particular stores in that area and they wondered, “How come?” They found out that local doctors were prescribing drugs to drug users in that area and they saw that as a very, very effective crime fighter because people who got their drugs legally weren’t stealing. So they proposed, let’s have a conference on these kinds of policies. Because they envisioned that the theft rates in all of England c
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