Commentaries
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2008); 83, 4, 522–523.doi:doi:10.1038/sj.clpt.6100498
Continuing to Struggle with the Term "Harm Reduction"
ST Higgins1
1College on Problems of Drug Dependence and Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Correspondence: , (stephen.higgins@uvm.edu)
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Abstract
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.
