Enabling places and enabling resources: new directions for harm reduction research and practice.

Social Science and Health Research Unit, Monash University, Melbourne,AustraliaIn this digest, Cameron Duff proposes a different way of understanding the risk environment literature as it relates to theimplementation of harm reduction.He argues that we need to look beyond the everyday tools of harm reduction like needle andsyringe programs and peer education to‘enabling places’and‘enabling resources’,areas where public policy makers and socialplanners can ensure the delivery of more innovative harm reduction policies and programs.Duff urges us to see harm reductionas more than just providing drug users with specific resources to reduce individual drug-related harm. Instead, he argues thatwe need to make use of the range of material,social and affective resources that are available across the diverse settings in whichdrug use occurs.

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