Harm Reduction
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Management of injecting drug users admitted to hospital.

8 Oct 2009 General hospital clinicians frequently deal with injecting drug users because substance use has diverse medical and psychiatric complications. Non-specialist clinicians often initiate management when specialist consultation is not available or ... Read more...

Gender-specific normative perceptions of alcohol-related protective behavioral strategies.

30 Aug 2009 The present research aimed (a) to determine whether students underestimate gender-specific descriptive normative perceptions for protective behavioral strategies; (b) to evaluate the relationships among perceived gender-specific descriptive and ... Read more...

Clinical messages from the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS).

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this report was to summarize the key clinical messages from the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS). METHODS: TADS is a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded randomized controlled trial ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Harm Reduction'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Management of injecting drug users admitted to hospital. 8 Oct 2009
• The future of harm reduction programmes in Russia. 8 Oct 2009
• Reducing harm from alcohol: what about unrecorded products? 17 Sep 2009
• Gender-specific normative perceptions of alcohol-related protective behavioral strategies. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical messages from the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS). 30 Aug 2009
• Discussing treatment preferences with patients who want "everything". 30 Aug 2009
• Protective behaviors and high-risk drinking among entering college freshmen. 30 Aug 2009
• Informed recruitment in partner studies of HIV transmission: an ethical issue in couples research. 25 Aug 2009
• Addressing the global drink problem. 30 Jul 2009
• Frequency and correlates of inappropriate pediatric psychiatric emergency room visits. 30 Jul 2009
• [Opiate replacement therapy in France] 26 Jul 2009
• Harm reduction techniques for hookah (shisha, narghile, "water pipe") smoking of tobacco based products. 20 Jul 2009
• Visual perspective and genetics: a commentary on Lemogne and colleagues. 7 Jul 2009
• Substance use 2: nursing assessment, management and types of intervention. 29 Jun 2009
• A review of drug prevention system development in Romania and its impact on youth drug consumption trends, 1995-2005. 29 Jun 2009
• Alcohol-related mortality in Ukraine. 29 Jun 2009
• Personality traits and endocrine response as possible asymmetry factors of agonistic outcome in karate athletes. 29 Jun 2009
• Action needed to tackle a global drink problem. 25 Jun 2009
• Alcohol and harm reduction in Russia. 25 Jun 2009
• Reducing harm from alcohol: call to action. 25 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Harm Reduction'

Definition: The application of methods designed to reduce the risk of harm associated with certain behaviors without reduction in frequency of those behaviors. The risk-associated behaviors include ongoing and active addictive behaviors.

Descriptor UI: D040261

Alternative terms: Harm Reduction; Reduction, Harm; Harm Minimization; Minimization, Harm;

Related Mesh Headings: Risk;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.145.477;

History Note: 2003