A practice organized around reducing the health harms of an ongoing risk behavior other than tobacco, rather than eliminating the behavior itself. Belongs here: a harm reduction practice for a substance or risk behavior outside tobacco. Does not belong here: tobacco-specific control work, grouped under tobacco control practices.
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One of the first harm reduction models was called the 'Mersey Harm Reduction Model' in 1980s Liverpool, and the success of utilizing outreach workers, distribution of education, and providing clean equipment to drug users was shown in the fact that an HIV epidemic did not happen in Mersey.
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