Needle exchange and methadone are directly affected by the drug war ideology. All of us in harm reduction have to get involved in drug reform. Edith Springer sees an exploding demand for harm reduction, and she has traveled around the country giving harm reduction workshops. There's a demand for it in every social service area. As we approach the millennium, people are hungry for a spiritual force.
Springer urges that harm reduction programs be kept small.
Don't try to become a huge bureaucracy, or it will turn into your worst nightmare. Finally, Springer urges integrity, and wariness of funding sources. Money isn't everything. For Allan Clear, the future of the harm reduction movement involves a variety of things. We must educate doctors so that they learn how to deal with drug users properly.