Ethical challenges and responses in harm reduction research: promoting applied communitarian ethics

Ethical challenges and responses in harm reduction research: promoting applied communitarian ethics

Harm reduction is often defined as value-neutral with regard to drug use and drug users. In this paper Fry, Treloar & Maher argue that to its detriment, harm reduction research (and practice), in its focus on technical skills, evidence and innovation, has failed to articulate an agreed moral fra...

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Published in:Drug and alcohol review Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 449 - 459
Main Authors: Fry, Craig L., Treloar, Carla, Maher, Lisa
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Informa UK Ltd 01-09-2005
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects:
Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League
Drug Abuse
Ethics
Harm Reduction
Harm Reduction - ethics
Human Rights
Humans
Public health
Research Design
Social Behavior
Social Responsibility
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Summary:Harm reduction is often defined as value-neutral with regard to drug use and drug users. In this paper Fry, Treloar & Maher argue that to its detriment, harm reduction research (and practice), in its focus on technical skills, evidence and innovation, has failed to articulate an agreed moral framework. Using case examples from a recent forum on the topic, they make a case for a more ethically engaged harm reduction. Recent debate about ethical issues within harm reduction occurs against similar discussion in public health. The authors explain that crucial issues emerge at intersections between human rights, consumer engagement and applied communitarian ethics. Simon Lenton Editor, Harm Reduction Digest
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Drug and Alcohol Review, v.24, no.5, Sept 2005: (449)-459
Craig L. Fry BSc(Hons), Senior Research Fellow, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Melbourne, and Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Carla Treloar PhD, Research Fellow, National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Lisa Maher PhD, Associate Professor and Program Head, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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ISSN:0959-5236
1465-3362
DOI:10.1080/09595230500263905