THE concept of harm reduction is to reduce harm towards the masses – in other words, it’s about limiting damage towards the individual rather than society in general. To do this, we have to look at what damage individuals inflict when it comes to general health.
There are three examples that I can think of when we talk about harm reduction: sexual health, drug addiction and smoking.
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