Advantages Of Harm Reduction

Harm reduction is the approach of making drug using safer people who use drugs. It helps to make drug usage cleaner since it’s deeming harder and harder to actually stop one from using drugs. This approach educates users on the effects of drug usage and gives them other options when seeking help to get off drugs. There are a few underlying assumptions to the harm reduction approach. As explained my Muraskin & Roberts (2009), one underlying assumption is that society needs to know that a drug free one is impractical and should accept other means to help control drug use. The second assumption is that any and all drug use should be held to the same standards, whether they are legal or illegal. The third assumption is that not all drug users should
not be viewed as criminals, and it should take the community to help them get the help they need not the courts. The community needs to come together and help provide a cleaner safer way for people to use drugs. This way the streets won’t be lined up with disease ridden drug users. The last assumption for this approach is that other alternatives should be looked at when having drug users go to treatment. Again explained by Muraskin & Roberts (2009), harm reduction is designed to entice them through non-threating interventions and aggressive social work. This harm reduction approach is essential another way to decrease any undesirable consequences accompanying with drug use.