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Category Archives: Harm Reduction

Articles from journals across the web on strategies to reduce the harm caused by drugs and alcohol,

HUFFORD/BALLIN: FDA will rule none too soon on e-cigarette regulations

If the FDA embraces harm reduction and enacts balanced regulations that encourage the efficient development of safer forms of nicotine delivery, then it can both protect public health and enable free market forces, driven by innovation, to help permanentl

FDA’s top tobacco regulator pledges ‘fair’ enforcement of products

“You all make a lawful product,” Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, told those attending the Tobacco Merchants Association’s annual meeting in Williamsburg.

FDA tobacco chief says health community grappling with idea that some products are less risky

Changes in the marketplace have forced the public health community to wrestle with the idea that some tobacco products may pose less of a health risk than others, the new head of the Food and Drug Administration’s tobacco control efforts told an industry

VIDEO: Big Tobacco and Smokers Battle in Controversial Case

Marjory Moses, Director of Community Wellness at Davis Memorial Hospital, said, “To say that a cigarette could have been safer, that less nicotine makes it safer, or that a filter could make it safer, is just saying it could be different. It can’t ultimat

Attorneys give closing arguments in lawsuit pitting smokers against big tobacco companies

Attorneys gave their final summaries and appeals to jurors Monday in a trial that seeks to determine the responsibility of the major tobacco companies in hundreds of cigarette-linked illnesses and deaths in West Virginia.

Va. entrepreneur caught in growing political drama

Two decades later, revelations of Williams’ lavish gifts and his company’s generous political donations are at the center of a growing scandal dogging the state’s two top Republicans – Gov.

LYONS: The new EU directive: quit smoking or die

In December 2012, the EU’s executive, the European Commission, announced its proposals to revise the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), originally passed in 2001, to take account of ’significant scientific, market and international developments’ that have

CHAPMAN/WAKEFIELD: Large-scale unassisted smoking cessation over 50 years: lessons from history for endgame planning in tobacco control

nations which have banned or seriously restricted access to alternative nicotine delivery systems (eg, the European Union, New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, Oman, Singapore, Thailand) would be wise to take great care before considering unravelling their sm

Totally Wicked Welcomes the JURI committee’s Opinion of the EU Tobacco Products Directive

The draft Directive at present proposes to subject electronic cigarettes to the medicines licensing regime, essentially amounting to a ban on the product as currently sold.

Hepatitis C treatment access and uptake for people who inject drugs: a review mapping the role of social factors

Background: Evidence documents successful hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment outcomes for people who inject drugs (PWID) and interest in HCV treatment among this population. Maximising HCV treatment for PWID can be an effective HCV preventative measure.