Talk:Harm reduction

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Harm reduction article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the subject of the article.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help. Assume good faith Be polite and avoid personal attacks Be welcoming to newcomers Seek dispute resolution if needed Article policies Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability

Find medical sources: Source guidelines · PubMed · Cochrane · DOAJ · Gale · OpenMD · ScienceDirect · Springer · Trip · Wiley · TWL

Archives: 1, 2, 3Auto-archiving period: 6 months

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Addictions and recovery High‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Addictions and recovery, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of addiction on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. Health and fitness This article is within the scope of WikiProject Health and fitness, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of health and physical fitness related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. Medicine Mid‑importance Medicine portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine, which recommends that medicine-related articles follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles and that biomedical information in any article use high-quality medical sources. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. Nursing Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Nursing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Nursing on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. Philosophy: Ethics / Social and political Low‑importance Philosophy portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Philosophy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of content related to philosophy on Wikipedia. If you would like to support the project, please visit the project page, where you can get more details on how you can help, and where you can join the general discussion about philosophy content on Wikipedia. Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. Associated task forces: /  Ethics Social and political philosophy Social Work High‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Social Work, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of social work on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article contains broken links to one or more target anchors: [[Long-term effects of cannabis#Psychosis|psychosis]] Anchor Long-term effects of cannabis#Psychosis links to a specific web page: Psychosis. The anchor (#Psychosis) is no longer available because it was deleted by a user before. The anchors may have been removed, renamed, or are no longer valid. Please fix them by following the link above, checking the page history of the target pages, or updating the links. Remove this template after the problem is fixed | Report an error

Routes of administration: Add a "Nasal administration" sub-section

Nasal septum perforation caused from cocaine abuse.

And copy/paste Nasal septum perforation 94.255.152.53 (talk) 18:49, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Link to World Federation Against Drugs and Real Women of Canada?

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

The page is protected. Can someone link World Federation Against Drugs (in the criticism section) and Real Women of Canada (in the Supervised injection sites section) to their respective wikipedia articles? - 129.242.129.238 (talk) 08:55, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Skynxnex (talk) 15:59, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Needs a "Philosophy" and "Origin" Section

I believe that a more detailed break down of harm reduction philosophy and origins should be included- the article focuses mainly on substances, which are of course relevant, but glosses over that this was a movement started by people who use drugs as a way to care for one another in the absence of compassionate and effective public health services. There is a large amount of history missing from this article without it's inclusion.Wizard-semantics (talk) 15:46, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty dubious about this - perhaps a particular American pov. I think there's too much emphasis on "drugs" - where is tobacco in particular. Johnbod (talk) 16:36, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What makes you dubious about adding an origin of the movement? Can you be more specific about your concerns? Wizard-semantics (talk) 17:33, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Outside the US, I'm dubious that it is "a movement started by people who use drugs as a way to care for one another in the absence of compassionate and effective public health services". In Europe and elsewhere, I think it is more a health strategy mainly devised by professionals and implemented precisely in "compassionate and effective public health services". (American) Starter paper on history re tobacco Johnbod (talk) 18:41, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think we might be running into a similar issue- Harm reduction is now a broad enough topic that the term references several different methodologies or "traditions". I think the whole page could benefit from additional organizational structure- see your point about tobacco. Wizard-semantics (talk) 19:06, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]