Ethical challenges and responses in harm reduction research: promoting applied communitarian ethics.

The article argues the recent research on harm reduction. The author stresses that the harm reduction research has failed to articulate an agreed moral framework. Harm reduction could not be defined as a value neutral as what was stated in the recent research, since the overarching goal of reducing harm is in itself a value notion. He also added that the discussion on the ethical underpinnings of harm reduction do not perpetrate to the moralistic definitions of drug use or a punitive moral stance.