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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Barriers to the dissemination of four harm reduction strategies: a survey of addiction treatment providers in Ontario | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Barriers to the dissemination of four harm reduction strategies a survey of addiction treatment providers in Ontario Karen L Hobden 1 and John A Cunningham2 Open Access Address Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Toronto Ontario Canada and 2Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Departments of Psychology and of Public Health Services University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada Email Karen L Hobden - khobden@ John A Cunningham - John_Cunningham@ Corresponding author Published 14 December 2006 Received 26 November 2004 __ AA . . A I 1 irn - - f Accepted 14 December 2006 Harm Reduction Journal 2006 3 35 doi l477-75l7-3-35 This article is available from http content 3 l 35 2006 Hobden and Cunningham licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ A sample of service providers at addictions agencies in Ontario were interviewed by telephone to assess attitudes toward anticipated internal and external barriers to implementing and expected benefits of four harm reduction strategies needle exchange moderate drinking goals methadone treatment and provision of free condoms to clients. Respondents were also asked to define harm reduction list its most important elements and describe what they find most troubling and most appealing about harm reduction. Attitudes toward harm reduction in general and the services provided at each agency were also assessed. Results indicated that the service providers surveyed had positive attitudes toward each of the four harm reduction strategies and harm reduction in general and the .