| | Harm Induction vs Harm Reduction: Comparing American and British Approaches to Drug Use |
 | | The American top-down, coercive approach to the identical crisis facing Britain -- an upsurge on HIV infection transmitted through the sharing of needles by desperate drug injectors -- illustrates a crucial difference in the experience of crisis within the American as compared to British context. |
 | | Seen in international context, one aspect of the American approach without merit is the government's waging of the War on Drugs, a war absorbing the efforts and energy of the police, courts, jails, prisons, armies, and taxpayers. |
 | | British social workers who have the advantage of living in a country with a national health service and government sponsored harm reduction policies can advocate to maintain the present system which is now under threat by elements from the far right. |
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