Sentence examples for useful harm from inspiring English sources

E-cigarettes, the scientists say, are a very useful harm reduction tool, allowing smokers to get their nicotine fix without the deadly tar in cigarettes.

Looking to the science, though, it's not a useful harm-reduction philosophy to promote.

None of the alarming forecasts were correct, none of the interventions were useful, and harm was caused in 20.

(2) Surgeon is suboptimally informed: Not requesting a CT scan when in fact the CT scan would have been useful can harm the patient because the surgeon is suboptimally informed about the fracture.

There is no sound basis for choosing one of these combinations over the other in this sample population, although item 8 on memory loss has been shown to be a useful measure of harm and predictor of future alcohol-related injury in young people [ 37, 38].

Council officials believe the policy, publicly supported by the council and the city's police chiefs for more than 20 years, now carries "reputational and financial risk" for Edinburgh, and is no longer as useful for minimising harm for sex workers.

Instead of condemning drug users, they could do something useful and offer harm reduction strategies.

"Although we can't yet say for sure whether they are effective tools for smoking cessation, they are at least safer alternatives to cigarette smoking, which makes them useful tools for harm reduction".

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) general definition of a medical error - 'the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim' - is most useful when thinking about harm and potential harm to patients [ 1].

So you could argue that if it may be useful for us, what's the harm in getting everyone to floss anyway?

"There are ways to increase the danger and to decrease it, and it's more useful to talk about harm reduction or drug policy reform," he said.