Disease relevance of Harm Reduction

• CONCLUSIONS: Among drug users who receive methadone maintenance treatment in a harm-reduction setting, which includes ancillary services such as needle-exchange programmes and HIV testing and counselling, prescription of high methadone dosages is not sufficient to stop the spread of HIV [1].
• A better understanding of the etiology of hyperthermia after MDMA use is needed so that appropriate harm-reduction measures can be developed and instituted [2].

Psychiatry related information on Harm Reduction

• CONCLUSION: Nicotine gum may be an efficacious harm-reduction alternative for smokers who are not ready to quit and may promote smoking cessation, the ultimate goal in the treatment of tobacco dependence [3].
• In addition, clinical experience shows that heroin and cocaine addiction can best be conceptualised and treated as a chronic, relapsing disorder with the following treatment goals: crisis intervention, cure or recovery (detoxification, relapse prevention) and care or partial remission (stabilization and harm reduction) [4].
• Nowadays harm reduction health strategies would need to face cocaine use, and sexual risk behaviors mainly among females and sexual partners [5].
• Supported by the Chinese government and other related international organisations, harm reduction strategies such as methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and needle-syringe programmes (NSP) have commenced implementation to reduce the risk of HIV infection among heroin users [6].
• Differences in African American and White college students' drinking behaviors: consequences, harm reduction strategies, and health information sources [7].

High impact information on Harm Reduction

• BACKGROUND: Patients in harm-reduction treatment programs are switching from intravenous to other routes of methamphetamine (INN, metamfetamine) administration to avoid risks associated with needle use [8].
• Paracetamol self-poisoning. Characteristics, prevention and harm reduction [9].
• Solution 1H NMR (proton-NMR) spectroscopy was used to measure the distribution of nicotine between its free-base and protonated forms at 20 degrees C in (a) water; (b) glycerin/water mixtures; and (c) puff-averaged "smoke" particulate matter (PM) produced by the Eclipse cigarette, a so-called "harm reduction" cigarette manufactured by R [10].
• AIMS: The School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project (SHAHRP study) aimed to reduce alcohol-related harm in secondary school students [11].
• Alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use among Nova Scotia adolescents: implications for prevention and harm reduction [12].

Chemical compound and disease context of Harm Reduction

• AIMS: The School Health and Alcohol Harm Reduction Project aims to reduce alcohol-related harm by enhancing students' abilities to identify and deal with high-risk drinking situations particularly likely to be encountered by young people [13].
• Putting an Ecstasy test kit to the test: harm reduction or harm induction [14]?
• The impact of a police drug crackdown on drug injectors' ability to practice harm reduction: a qualitative study [15].
• Harm reduction for methamphetamine users [16].
• OBJECTIVE: To examine parents' reported knowledge and use of harm reduction strategies to protect their infants from exposure to tobacco smoke in the home, and the relation between reported use of strategies and urinary cotinine to creatinine ratios in the infants [17].

Biological context of Harm Reduction

• The hypotheses advanced include: the changing nature of the industry's interest in research and the role of marketing; the rise of the 'new public health' alliance focused on abstention rather than on harm minimization; the role of government funding and control of research; and the changing meaning of tobacco and especially nicotine [18].
• This article looks at the history, epidemiology, and politics of Ecstasy, the media's response, and the ways in which media and government reaction will compromise harm reduction and safety [19].

Gene context of Harm Reduction

• In the current analysis, they compared African American and White students on indicators of high-risk drinking, drinking consequences, harm-reduction strategies, the sources that students typically used for health information, and the believability of those sources [7].
• The topic of drug consumption facilities or rooms (DCRs) was reviewed by Dolan, Kimber and others in Harm Reduction Digest 10, published in the September 2000 issue of DAR [20].
• The 2001 Institute of Medicine report Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction has helped to focus attention on the scientific basis for assessing tobacco harm reduction products [21].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Harm Reduction

• Eighth World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, 28 October-1 November 2001, Sydney, Australia: Harm minimization and effective risk management [22].

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