Great article on the HRC in Baltimore on Substance What do you think about the mainstreaming of HR? As the involvement of many high-powered academics, practitioners and policy wonks shows, harm reduction’s success is fast making it mainstream. “You can see the different tribes here,” one delegate told me. “The punky-looking activists and the professional-looking types.” And for many people who have been involved since a time when it was dominated more by radical activists and less by professionals, this causes some fretting over the movement’s soul. The widening applicability of the philosophy is one potential area of concern. Benjamin Phillips, the Harm Reduction Coalition’s special projects coordinator, enthusiastically supports the diverse applications of harm reduction showcased at the conference. But he admitted to worries about the potential for harm reduction being “watered down into mere ‘risk reduction,’” an approach applied for results—or even profit—without necessary regard for “the most marginalized and stigmatized people” who have always been the movement’s core constituency.
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