Clinical harm reduction nurse Linda Macleod said steroids users would be offered advice on exercise and nutrition.
Now consider that science actually has the means to dramatically reduce this public health catastrophe: tobacco harm reduction.
The new council announced a different approach to drugs, involving harm reduction and treatment as well as enforcement.
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It has been set up by the health board's harm reduction service and will be held every Wednesday evening from 18 May.
Presumably, in the name of harm reduction, public systems might try charging less for the earlier semesters and more for the later ones.
Measures proposed in the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England involve voluntary action by alcohol producers and retailers, and action from the government, police and councils.
Last year, Alcohol Concern called for parents who give alcohol to children aged under 15 to be prosecuted in its report on the government's Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy.
Relaxing, not tightening, strictures against harm reduction products should be implemented in the EU, and as soon as possible, as thousands die needlessly each day from inhaling smoke.
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The key fact in the harm reduction equation is that nicotine is not the harmful component of cigarettes, something that CFTFK and Altria ought to know by now.
As applied in other areas of public health, the benefits of harm reduction are well known: the idea is to reduce the health consequences of a substance or behavior without demanding complete abstinence from it.
Dena Davis, a law and ethics professor at Cleveland State University and the legal consultant on the AAP's policy review, says that she personally favours considering a symbolic cut, because of the potential for harm reduction.
But the federal government refused to renew the exemption in 2008, arguing that "harm-reduction" programmes diverted funding from addiction-treatment programmes.
Democrats responded that the Ryan proposal would harm economic growth by shifting the burden of deficit reduction to middle-class Americans, the elderly and others, while cutting spending for college loans, infrastructure development, scientific research and other areas vital for job creation.
However, he said the reduction of "adverse incidents that cause, or could have caused unexpected harm to patients and clients" remained a core responsibility for the trusts and the Department of Health.
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