CORINNE A. CAREY New York, Aug. 31, 2000 The writer is director, Harm Reduction Project, Urban Justice Center.
Allan Clear Rachel Porter New York, Oct. 27, 2004 The writers are, respectively, executive director, Harm Reduction Coalition, and domestic program manager, Doctors of the World-U.S.A.
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Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has complained that cuts in his budget request demanded by Richard G. Darman, the White House budget director, would harm services to 50 million Americans who benefit from Social Security, Medicare and other Federal health programs.
The project is operating in a hostile legal environment that puts its outreach workers at the same risks as its client group, said Pascal Tanguay PSI's programme director for harm reduction.
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Will Tregoning, director of harm reduction group Unharm, told VICE that the presence of sniffer dogs at festivals has stopped very few people from taking illicit drugs, while huge amounts of these substances continue to make their way in.
According to Will Tregoning, director of harm reduction organization Unharm, these searches are more likely to target people from a lower socioeconomic background, who have more tendency to be using public transport.
"We have found that if you build it, they will come," said Sara Gael, MAPS's director of harm reduction, adding that festivals like Burning Man are eager to incorporate their services into their safety plans.
Yet Will Tregoning, director of harm reduction organisation, Unharm, said the act states that the searches should be carried out when the "seriousness and urgency of the circumstances require the strip search," and he questions whether this is the case with these drug searches.
Will Tregoning, director of harm reduction group Unharm, has pointed out that their presence leads people to partake in dangerous drug taking practices: such as preloading or panic dumping of drugs, as well as hiding packages of drugs in internal body cavities.
