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Continuing to struggle with the term "harm reduction".

Higgins ST

College on Problems of Drug Dependence and Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA. stephen.higgins@uvm.edu

I am pleased to have this opportunity to comment on Alan Leshner's Macroscopy (this issue) 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.

Published 19 March 2008 in Clin Pharmacol Ther, 83(4): 522-3.
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