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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Review by: Chelsea Boyd
Officials have referred to youth e-cigarette use as an “epidemic” and have continued to sound alarms that vaping lures a new generation to a lifetime of nicotine use….
WASHINGTON (June 7, 2019)—The R Street Institute welcomes today’s announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products that Philip Morris Product S.A.’s IQOS…
Reviewed by: Stacey McKenna
Review of: Toby Lea et al., “Microdosing psychedelics: Motivations, subjective effects and harm reduction,” International Journal of Drug Policy (2020).
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, RADWTOP
Radio: Latest on Covid-19 as we head into the summer.
Chelsea Boyd
From RADWTOP:
R Street’s Chelsea Boyd discusses the latest increase in Covid-19 cases and what it means for the rest of the summer.
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Comprehensive Sexuality Education Is Harm Reduction
Chelsea Boyd
Harm reduction and sexual health have been linked since harm reduction’s birth as a means to decrease the spread of HIV during the 1980s. Early harm reductionists championed the use of condoms and…
Second Try Legislation to Ban Smokeless Tobacco Products Passes Senate Approps
Steven Greenhut
From California Globe:
“Banning flavored tobacco products is a bad public-health move given that many smokers have used smokeless tobacco products such as snus and other flavored nicotine…
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, Hawai’i lawmakers were working to address another public health issue that has plagued the state: the high rates of youth vaping amongst Hawai’i teens….
Dear H.E. Nguyen Xuan Phuc and H.E. Trinh Dinh Dung:
We appreciate the opportunity to submit comments in support of risk-proportionate regulation of E-cigarettes and heated tobacco products. We…
, ARC
Pandemic Economics
Shoshana Weissmann & Chelsea Boyd & Courtney Joslin & Nick Zaiac & R.J. Lehmann
From ARC:
Some regulatory changes, such as expanding scope-of-practice laws for health professionals and allowing nurses to practice across state lines are specifically relevant for the crisis,…
Tobacco retailers and manufactures are rightfully subject to significant regulatory oversight. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the primary regulatory agency for tobacco products,…