Harm reduction

Jacques Normand ^a,*, Jih-Heng Li ^b, Nicholas Thomson ^c,d, Don Des Jarlais ^e

a AIDS Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
b School of Pharmacy and PhD Program in Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
c Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
d Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
e The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City, NY, USA

The “Harm Reduction” session was chaired by Dr Jacques Normand, Director of the AIDS Research Program of the United States National Institute on Drug Abuse. The three presenters (and their presentation topics) were: Dr Don Des Jarlais (High coverage needle/ syringe programs for people who inject drugs in low and middle income countries: a systematic review), Dr Nicholas Thomson (Harm reduction history, response, and current trends in Asia), and Dr Jih-Heng Li (Harm reduction strategies in Taiwan).

Keywords:Harm reduction, Methadone, Needle/syringe programs