Mon 12.01.08| Drug Use & "Harm Reduction"

Beyrer & Pizer, eds., Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2007

Open Society Institute's International Harm Reduction Development Program

When ideology does battle with science in the arena of drug policy and HIV prevention, which wins -- and who loses? Daniel Wolfe argues that punitive and moralistic approaches violate the human rights of drug users. Mark Townsend describes the history and operation of Insite, North America's first and only legal supervised injection site.

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