s are clearly safer than others. One example is alcohol. Drinking a glass of wine a day can help clean the blood and be beneficial to the heart. However, when abused, people can become addicted and turn into alcoholics. This condition often destroys their lives and severely impacts the lives of family and friends. It is possible to drink responsibly and watch out for signs that you are leading to abuse. Another example is heroin. Heroin is probably one of the drugs that should be abstained from because of its very high addiction level and potential for abuse. People think that they can use this drug responsibly, but this is almost entirely impossible. "The number of addicts seeking heroin treatment in the USA surpassed the number of those seeking treatment for cocaine problems, federal officials say. In 1999, an estimated 240,000 addicts sought treatment"(Pill).
             Harm reduction should help to establish the quality of individual and community life and well being, not necessarily cessation of all drug use, as the criteria for successful interventions and policies. Harm reduction also calls for the non-judgmental, non-coercive provision of services and resources to people who use drugs and the communities in which they live in order to assist them in reducing attendant harm. It helps ensure that drug users and those with a history of drug use routinely have a real voice in the creation of programs and policies designed to serve them. Harm Reduction affirms drug users themselves as the primary agents of reducing the harms of their drug use and seeks to empower users to share information and support each other in strategies, which meet their actual conditions of use. There is recognition that the realities of poverty, class, racism, social isolation, past trauma, sex-based discrimination and other social inequalities affect both people's vulnerability to and capacity for effectively dealing with dr
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