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Harm minimisation literature (request) and the future direction of Harm Minimisation

Thanks for the imput MezZedUp, your voice is heard and greatly appreciated. :)

One thing that i have got from my research so far is the problems of definitions pertaining to the drugs issue- which is one huge tangled mess of contradictory definitions, whether it be the debate over harm minimisation/reduction and prevention, to defintions of morality, to definitions of recreational use and problem use. It would be much easier to get a handle on all this, if the definitions weren't so dynamic which i guess serves to highlight the fluidity of the drug issue itself. The main problem as i see it, is that amongst all these antagonistic definitions are competing vested interests- that on face value are irreconsilible. The only way forward to best practice is to have everybody working for the same goal and that goal needs to be one which is free of contradictory definitions and misinformation. Yet, how do we strip away all the emotive elements of drug discourse to create a workable policy that will have everybody working towards the same goal? It seems to me, just from the reading that i have done thus far that most literature is written one either side of the harm debate, Watters, Parrett, Judge Judy, Howard and Co on one side, and Wodak, Pennington, drug law reformers and us on the other. There is no unbiased impartial perspective (on a side note i know we're right, just look at the logic the other side uses! Yet our arguements come from our standpoint) on the issue. I think this polarisation of the drugs debate is one of the main obstacles to solving the issue of the negative aspect of drugs in society, yet could i be as naive as the prohibitionist side in assuming there is a solution? Is it one of those fundamentally unanswerable questions like why are we here? Maybe i could answer both questions through psychedelic insight- if only i didn't have this damned essay to write...... which basically encapsulates the inherent problem with drugs......... and it's such a nice day too!
 
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