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

• Main Authors: James Peterson (Author), Shannon Gwin Mitchell (Author), Yan Hong (Author), Michael Agar (Author), Carl Latkin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...