Health advocates, scientists win battle to beat sham science
If you decided to take the path of harm reduction, either as a short-term mindful-smoking sabbatical (as you gear up for the next attempt at quitting) or an open-ended, long-term harm-reduction commitment, you will have to learn how to get more out of less. To do so, you’ll have to shift from mindless smoking to mindful smoking. Here are 15 strategies to consider (from Smoke-Free Smoke Break).
Jia-shin Chen’s recent commentary () ‘Beyond human rights and public health: Citizenship issues in harm reduction’ demonstrates little understanding of human rights, undermining its central critique.
“Ending the Tobacco Epidemic: A Federal Plan” is the startling title of a speech scheduled Wednesday, March 14, by Dr. Howard Koh, assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Background: Medical cannabis dispensaries following the social or hybrid model offer supplementary holistic services in addition to dispensing medical cannabis. Historically, alternative physical health services have been the norm for these dispensaries, including services such as yoga, acupuncture, or chiropractor visits. A clinical service dearth remains for medical cannabis patients seeking substance use, misuse, dependence, and mental health services
Monday, February 20, 2012
Replacing smoking products with e-cigarettes or modern, spit-free smokeless tobacco can greatly reduce risk of disease and death in smokers, say scientists. These products provide a much safer alternative for those smokers who are unable or unwilling to quit smoking because they continue to deliver nicotine without the harmful effect of smoking.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Abstract: Background: Mephedrone injecting has recently been reported in Romania, Slovenia, Guernsey and Ireland. The research reported here aimed to describe the experiences of a group of Irish injecting drug users, who were injecting mephedrone based headshop products prior to the introduction of legislative controls in Ireland, with particular focus on pre- and post-legislative use, effects of injecting mephedrone, settings and contexts for injecting, polydrug use and serial drug injecting, risk perceptions and harm reduction practises.Methods: Following a predevelopment phase with a Privileged Access Interviewer, in-depth interviews using a phenomenological approach were conducted with eleven attendees of a low threshold harm reduction service.Results: The findings describe the abuse potential of these mephedrone based headshop products when used by intravenous injection
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged based-headshop, cathinone, drug-injecting, excessive-binge, experiences, investigation, irish, other-cathinone, products, products-prior, romania, safe-injecting, slovenia
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
If you followed this fable so far, you can see where I am going. Today’s real world attitude toward tobacco is misdirected and ill-founded
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Also tagged attitude-toward, constituents, culprits, future, problem, products, reduce-the-harm, smoke, sooner-or-later, tobacco
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Substituting smokeless tobacco products can save smokers’ lives, and there is a scientific foundation that proves it.
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Also tagged advancement, annual, annual-meeting, been-the-brutal, centers, disease-control, endowed, endowed-chair, policy-change, science, tobacco, tobacco-harm, university
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Given the intolerable loss of life and health attributable to smoking, why are the skeptics at the FDA, the American Cancer Society and the CDC stonewalling America’s smokers about harm reduction? I believe it’s because those experts recall too well the tobacco industry’s reprehensible behavior during the last century, and simply do not trust anything that the industry proposes. But who pays for this failure to enter the 21st century and accept reality?
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Also tagged approach-should, behavior-during, during-the-last, enter-the-21st, experts, failure, families, industry, quit-the-death, society, tobacco, victims
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