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Prescription drugs kill more people than illegal ones; new harm reduction strategies needed

Lately on this blog, discussions of "harm reduction" have centered around the Attorney General's nonsensical legal opinion and Bexar District Attorney Susan Reed's efforts to bully out of existence a legislatively approved needle exchange program in San Antonio. But to judge by newly available data, drugs targeted via needle exchange programs cause less "harm" to the general public than the ones distributed by pharmacists.The biggest public safety threats related to illegal drugs in the United States arise from drug enforcement strategies that force the product to be delivered through a black market, resulting in violent conflicts among distributors, dangerously impure products, coercion and bribery of police, and a variety of other anti-social outcomes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 15, 2008 (boomark / email).