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So it takes 10 or more years for any screening method to demonstrate a reduction in mortality from breast cancer.
We worked very hard to get the smog reduction happening here in Los Angeles.
In Umar's home country of Nigeria, a 95 percent reduction in the number of children paralyzed by polio last year.
One positive example is from Ghana, where the Ghana Catholic Health Service partnered with a range of stakeholders and was able to realize a 31 percent reduction in mortality.
Because California was the first state in this country to mandate 25 percent reduction of greenhouse gases by 2020.
And this leads to severe repercussions, including episodes of famine in developing countries, large reduction of income for farmers and distributors, high prices for consumers and risk of exposure to mycotoxin, poison produced by fungi.
So without noise reduction technology, our country would not exist.
Now I had my nine groups, but, I mean, it's already quite a reduction.
This opened the door to expanding harm reduction services, distributing more needles, increasing access to methadone, and, finally, opening a supervised injection site.
But today, 20 years later, harm reduction is still viewed as some sort of radical concept.
Why do we ignore countless personal stories and overwhelming scientific evidence that harm reduction works?
Critics say that harm reduction doesn't stop people from using illegal drugs.
Critics also claim that harm reduction gives the wrong message to our children about drug users.
The message of harm reduction is that while drugs can hurt you, we still must reach out to people who are addicted.
This was a hopeful moment for harm reduction.
So why haven't harm reduction programs taken off?
First, we should fully embrace, fund and scale up harm reduction programs across North America.
I know that in places like Vancouver, harm reduction has been a lifeline to care and treatment.
I know that the number of overdose deaths would be far higher without harm reduction.
And I personally know hundreds of people who are alive today because of harm reduction.
But harm reduction is just the start.
3-D printing is so exciting and so promising, offering a 40 percent reduction in cost and near zero waste.
It impacts and fragments a larger part of the wilderness, where there is 90 percent reduction of key species, like woodland caribou and grizzly bears, and it consumes even more energy, more water, and produces at least as much greenhouse gas.
It's called harm reduction, and it involves, among other things, providing clean needles and syringes, offering opioid substitution therapy and other evidence-based treatments to reduce drug dependence.
Where the legal environment allows for harm reduction the results are striking.
Australia and Switzerland were two countries which introduced harm reduction very early on in their HIV epidemics, and they have a very low rate of HIV among injecting drug users.
The U.S. and Malaysia came to harm reduction a little later, and they have higher rates of HIV in these populations.
Thailand and Russia, however, have resisted harm reduction and have stringent laws which punish drug use.
We can retool prisons so that HIV prevention and harm reduction is available to prisoners.
It's the fundamental risk reduction for the human species.
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