PUBLIC HEALTH Are we giving hard drugs too soft a ride?*

In Australia, harm reduction guides policy on illicit drug use in the belief that most people who use drugs, including those who inject them, experience little or no harm, that to use drugs recreationally and for pleasure is a legitimate lifestyle choice and that society is obliged to minimise the harm associated with drug use. Drug testing or detection methods such as sniffer dogs, road-side driver testing and searches, especially of school children or employees, is considered an infringement …

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