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Enhancing harm reduction as part of OD prevention: ONDCP
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33145
Subject(s) - harm reduction , caucus , harm , drug control , government (linguistics) , control (management) , reduction (mathematics) , public administration , political science , medicine , law , family medicine , management , politics , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , economics
At a Senate hearing July 20, the federal government mapped out its plans for harm‐reduction organizations as coordinators with treatment on behalf of drug users, mainly through peers. Regina M. LaBelle, acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), before the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, praised “engagement between harm‐reduction staff and people who use drugs” as building trust. Her statement included footnotes showing that the policy is based on evidence (see below for the list).