Enabling environments and the reduction of drug-related harm: re-framing Australian policy and practice
Enabling environments and the reduction of drug-related harm: re-framing Australian policy and practice
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DOI：
10.1080/09595230500170258
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发表时间：
2005-05-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Dietze, P
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作者：
Moore, D;Dietze, P
在这篇论文中，Moore和Dietze使用了他们对墨尔本郊区圣基尔达街头注射吸毒者和性工作者的研究数据，以挑战澳大利亚毒品政策的主导地位。它们提醒我们，虽然鼓励个人改变行为的现有减少危害战略应当继续下去，但这些措施需要得到补充和扩展，进一步注意与毒品有关的危害的环境方面。这是一个及时的电话。针对个人行为改变的应对措施相对容易实施，政治上的挑战也较小。然而，如果我们真的认真对待减少澳大利亚社会中与毒品有关的危害，那么就必须解决破坏这些努力的更广泛的系统性和结构性障碍。
In this paper Moore & Dietze use data from their study of street-based injecting drug users and sex workers in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda to challenge the dominant emphasis of drug policy in Australia. They remind us that while existing harm reduction strategies that encourage individual behaviour change should be continued, these measures need to be complemented and extended by further attention to the environmental aspects of drug-related harm. This is a timely call. Responses targeting individual behaviour change are relatively easy to implement and less politically challenging. However, if we are really serious about reducing drug-related harm in the Australian community, then broader systemic and structural barriers which undermine these efforts must be addressed.