Harm reduction strategies for people who use drugs, but do not inject
As we said before, and as you know, there are young people who use drugs all around the world. Many of these people do not inject, but use drugs through other routes, such as smoking, inhaling, swallowing( liquid or pills), etc. What does it mean to reduce drug-related harm for these individuals? What are the responses that harm reduction and other comprehensive programmes provide for non-injecting drug users? What concerns exist for STIs and blood borne infections and noninjection drug use, such as ATS, alcohol, marihuana, cocaine, and etcetera.
For the most part, young people do not have access to information regarding drugs and drug use that is friendly and objective. Furthermore, young people tend not to lack tools to communicate, advocate and propose new strategies to deal with drugs and / or drug policies overall. It is important that we, as young people, understand drugs, drug use and drug policies so we can come up with harm reduction strategies that work for us.
Next, we provide you with a diagram that outlines the HIV / AIDS Education Prevention Risk Reduction Model. The Model illustrates numerous factors that impact an individual’ s vulnerability to HIV and categorizes them as individual factors or global / societal factors. It also outlines strategies for how to deal with individual and global / societal factors. This diagram may be helpful for facilitating group discussion about HIV prevention.