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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
3385.0: Monday, December 12, 2005 - 5:35 PM

Abstract #118740

Discussant: The politics of evidence and harm reduction

Samuel R. Friedman, PhD, Institute for AIDS Research, National Development and Research Institutes, 71 West 23d Street, 8th floor, New York, NY 10010, 212 845 4467, friedman@ndri.org

The discussant presentation will reflect on the individual presentations, as framed by a concern about social justice and the politics of evidence as played out in debates over harm reduction.

Learning Objectives: At the end of the discussant presentation, audience members will be better able to

Keywords: Substance Abuse, Social Justice

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

Harm Reduction & Conservative Attempts to Discount Progressive Evidence: Integrating History, Politics of Public Health Data, and Progressive Pedagogy

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA