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Wisconsin Harm Reduction Technical Assistance Center

What is HRTAC?

The Harm Reduction Technical Assistance Center (HRTAC) strives to be a connection between harm reduction programs and the resources and experts that can help programs better serve their communities. HRTAC is an effort to identify gaps and needs in the current landscape of Harm Reduction in Wisconsin, and to fill those needs through technical assistance. HRTAC is available to agencies and organizations within the state of Wisconsin.

What is Harm Reduction?

Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. Harm reduction includes a range of strategies that incorporates safer use, managed use, and abstinence, meeting people who use drugs, “where they’re at,” and addressing conditions of use along with the use itself.

Harm Reduction centers on these main principles

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Accepting that licit and illicit drug use happens
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Understanding that drug use is complex and includes a multitude of behaviors
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Quality of individual and community life
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Non-judgmental care
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Inclusion of people who use drugs (PWUD) in harm reduction decision making
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Doesn’t minimize or ignore the harm associated with drug use
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Understanding that social inequalities and discrimination affect people’s vulnerabilities to and capability to deal with drug-related harm

(Information courtesy of harmreduction.org)

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This presentation was made possible by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the non-research cooperative agreement CDC-RFA-CE-23-0002: Overdose Data to Action in States. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the CDC.