Harm Reduction Is a Myth DAVID STROM

"Harm reduction" doesn't reduce harm to addicts; it spreads the harm around so that everybody gets to enjoy living in a trash heap of a city...

• One of the nice-sounding and disaster-creating policies of the past few years is the insistence that "harm reduction" is superior to enforcing laws against illegal drug use.
• Who doesn't wish that addicts could be helped to lead safer, healthier, and less crime-ridden lives and hurried along the path to recovery?...

The problem is that this noble sentiment is, as with so many others, sentimental tripe. 

"Harm reduction" doesn't reduce harm to addicts; it spreads the harm around so that everybody gets to enjoy living in a trash heap of a city...