Getting clean and harm reduction: adversarial or complementary issues for injection drug users

Many contemporary HIV prevention interventions targeting injection drug users (IDUs) have been implemented using Harm Reduction as a theoretical framework. Among drug-using individuals, however, the abstinence-based "getting clean" models espoused by Narcotics Anonymous and other widely ad...

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Main Authors: James Peterson, Shannon Gwin Mitchell, Yan Hong, Michael Agar, Carl Latkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 2006-04-01
Series:Cadernos de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X2006000400012&lng=en&tlng=en