R Street’s Harm Reduction program aims for integrated harm reduction with tobacco, opioid and sexual behavior as central elements. We believe that “abstinence only” approaches to risky behaviors will not work on a population-wide basis. As such, we emphasize harm-reduction approaches that accept that harmful behavior may continue even as we seek to mitigate – if not eliminate – the harms involved.
Harm Reduction
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On Tuesday, June 15, the Council of the District of Columbia (Council) is reading a bill that would ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products. This ban would apply across the full spectrum of…
Review of: Abigail S. Friedman, “A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Youth Smoking and a Ban on Sales of Flavored Tobacco Products in San Francisco, California,” JAMA Pediatrics (2021)….
Free the Pill To Unshackle More Healthcare – America’s Future
Courtney Joslin
Since 2012, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which represents 58,000 ob-gyns across the United States, has advocated for over-the-counter birth control.
Event: E-cigarettes, flavors and harm reduction: finding common ground
Mazen Saleh & Chelsea Boyd
From R Street Institute:
Congress recently banned the sale of tobacco products to anyone under 21, and e-cigarette regulation continues to be a hot topic on Capitol Hill. Some members have…
REVIEW OF: Jack Stone et al. “Modeling the role of incarceration in HCV transmission and prevention amongst people who inject drugs in rural Kentucky,” International Journal of Drug Policy…
COVID-19 is here to stay
Chelsea Boyd
Despite all of the death and despair that has accompanied the COVID-19 epidemic, much of the long-term messaging has been hopeful. Early on, we were told if we could “bend the curve,” we could…
The Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021, introduced by U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR), with U.S. Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi…
REVIEW OF: Melissa Davoust et al., “Examining the implementation of police-assisted referral programs for substance use disorder services in Massachusetts,” International Journal of Drug Policy…
Chairs and members of the committee,
My name is Marc Hyden, and I am the director of state government affairs for the R Street Institute, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research…
Biden’s Menthol Cigarette Hustle
Eli Lehrer
From The American Spectator:
At National Review, R Street Institute President Eli Lehrer suggests that the Biden administration “should take a careful look at its menthol-ban proposal and…