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Continuing to Struggle with the Term “Harm Reduction”
Author(s) -
Higgins ST
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1038/sj.clpt.6100498
Subject(s) - clinical pharmacology , harm , term (time) , harm reduction , focus (optics) , psychology , engineering ethics , medicine , pharmacology , engineering , nursing , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , optics , public health
I am pleased to have this opportunity to comment on Alan Leshner's Macroscopy (this issue) 1 recommending that the term “harm reduction” be expunged from relevant professional lexicons. To the extent that this recommendation could be successfully implemented, it engenders no disagreement from me. Instead, my comments focus on how to deal with the vast world of literature and other activities that already exist around the term. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2008); 83 , 4, 522–523.doi: 10.1038/sj.clpt.6100498