Harm reduction aims to reduce the adverse health, social, and economic consequences of drug abuse while the person is still using drugs. -IHRA

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Harm reduction is a pragmatic and humanistic approach to diminishing the individual and social harms associated with drug use, especially the risk of HIV infection. It seeks to lessen the problems associated with drug use through methodologies that safeguard the dignity, humanity, and human rights of people who use drugs. - OSI