The drug use in some places is illegal, even to be seen carrying a needle. According to Mark Tyndall tenet, harm reduction works, and there is no need to keep on emphasizing on preventing people from using drugs. Making drugs illegal has no link to making people stop using them. Harm reduction policies do not mean giving up on people but offering drug users a safe place to use drugs before they can recover. There is no need for the government to close all the drug stores since the users will always find a way to reach them.
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better for everybody. The effect of denying the service of incite the
population to that it serves to increase the risk of death. The injection of
drug users in glossily disproportionate to any benefit that Canada might derive
from presenting a uniform stance on the possessions of narcotics. Mark advises
that harm reduction policies is not to show users that drugs are not harmful. Still,
it’s just trying a much better alternative than allowing the drug users to
inject and share needles secretly, which would be ineffective. Despite the pain
drug users go through, most of them are hopeful that they will stop using drugs.
The disadvantages of the harm reduction policy are that most of the people do not understand its importance, and therefore it is highly opposed. Due to the overdose crises, the government of Colombia allowed the opening of overdose prevention sites, virtually overnight, thousands of people could use the drug under supervision, hundreds of overdoses were reversed, and nobody died. Nobody has ever died in the overdose prevention site. Harm reduction policies are scientifically proven to be effective in reducing drug-related risks. Health care services, society, and media, stigmatizes the drug users. Drug users usually avoid hospitals because their supply chain will be cut, and they be exposed to a lot of shame and painful memories. Strategy cannot work on something as complicated as addiction. Drug-related mortality is the leading cause of death.