The negative effects include drug-related crime and violence, environmental damage as well as harm to families and communities.
This raises the issue of prejudice as well as harm to the other siblings involved in the case.
Needle exchange is the cornerstone of an approach known as harm reduction: making drug use less deadly.
Soon, the shift in focus from abstinence to what is known as harm reduction was in place for all addicts.
Another influence, beginning in the eighties, was the field of trauma studies, which understood words as harm.
He gives short shrift to the ways in which democracies encourage liberty, as well as harm it.
Yet we can't dismiss the idea that there's something about caregiving that can help as well as harm.
As yet, we haven't figured out how to build a machine that fully comprehends the concept of "dinner", much less something as abstract as "harm" or "protection".
Rather than try to eliminate drug abuse, Portugal's approach, commonly known as "harm reduction," attempts to minimize the negative consequences for society.
The meeting had extensive, and at times impassioned presentations that generally favored an approach to drug abuse known in treatment circles as "harm reduction".
Ofcom is currently evaluating whether to launch an investigation to see if Channel 5 has breached the broadcasting code relating to areas such as harm and offence.
