Harm reduction is a powerful approach to enhance the intervention options for addiction problems and has been introduced to the majority of the countries that report drug use problem. Yet in Japan, the programs under harm reduction approach has not officially implemented despite the growing interests in harm reduction as a possible means to increase the care options available for drug users in Japanese situation.  Based on a series of fact-finding studies including literature survey, document investigation, site visit and interviewing, authors made accurate monographs on harm reduction. Then, an interview survey with maximum eight questions was applied to two groups, (a) service users and (b) service providers of addiction related health and social care, in Japan and in the Netherlands in order to identify the difference and the variation of discourse regarding harm reduction.

Links（chiefly written in Japanese）

• A Bibliographical Review: Harm Reduction Strategies for Amphetamine and Other Non-Opioid drug Use
• Introduction to Harm Reduction in Japan
• Introduction to the Harm Reduction Policy for Japanese Medical Anthropologists
• Harm reduction and social care for drug users in East Asian countries: A comprehensive comparative study
• On our own tolerance and  harm reduction policy
• Harm Reduction in Australia
• Recent Research Trend on Drug User and Social Cntrol in Japan
• Serigaya Methamphetamine Relapse Prevention Program, SMARPP
• Illegal drugs Control and Moral Discourse
• Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia, ca. 2013
• On human communication problems under Globalization of Medicine and Health Care
• Substance related disorders and addictive disorders
• On Problem-Based Leaning, Maastricht University
• James Nolan's "Drug Courts in Theory and in Practice," 2002
  

Bibliography

• SUH, Sookja and M. IKEDA, 2015 Compassionate Pragmatism on the Harm Reduction Continuum: Expanding the Options for Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment in Japan. Communication-Design, No,13. Pp.63-72, (Sep. 2015) pdf 869KB

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