Harm reduction, for those who don't know, is a range of public health policies designed to reduce the harmful consequences associated with various, sometimes illegal, human behaviors. It's applied to fancy thin from drugs to sex and more. A friend from school who works with harm reduction in drug use and I started talking about how the harm reduction model could be used in an SI context. Since I've recently relapsed back into SI this is something thy I've been thinking a lot about since.

So I thought I would open the discussion to the forum. What are some harm reduction methods you'd offer someone?

My thought is if your going to engage in SI, I can't stop you but you should know how to do it safer.

Please no "just don't cut" posts. That's not the point. Also, to be safe I put the trigger warning.