"Harm reduction" is a public health model that places emphasis on reducing the negative effects of drug use rather than on eliminating drug use or ensuring abstinence. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic research, this article examines how harm reduction in Argentina is both envisioned and observed as a social practice by analyzing how local harm reductionists position their work in relation to "social context." My informants consider this social emphasis to be characteristic of a "Latin" kind of intervention, which they differentiate from an "Anglo-Saxon" approach focused on individual behavior change. Differentiating between these "cultural" models of intervention helps Argentine harm reductionists guide their social orientation to drug use, risk, and harm by situating interventions in the contexts in which users live and operate. It also allows them to distinguish their social form of harm reduction from a neoliberal one that they associate with the global north. The construction of these distinct cultural models of intervention is a means of critiquing neoliberal approaches to health that advocate technical solutions to changing individual behavior. Ultimately, this construct acts as a political commentary on the limits of an individual-oriented harm reduction project when applied to the "Argentine context."

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阿根廷减少危害的社会实践：一种“拉丁”干预

“减害”是一种公共卫生模式，强调减少吸毒的负面影响，而不是消除吸毒或确保戒毒。基于 16 个月的人种学研究，本文通过分析当地减少伤害主义者如何将他们的工作与“社会背景”相关联，来检验阿根廷的减少伤害如何被设想和观察为一种社会实践。我的线人认为这种社会强调是“拉丁”式干预的特征，他们将其与侧重于个人行为改变的“盎格鲁-撒克逊”方法区分开来。区分这些“文化”干预模式有助于阿根廷减少危害论者引导他们对吸毒、风险、通过将干预置于用户生活和操作的环境中来减少和伤害。它还使他们能够将他们减少危害的社会形式与他们与全球北方联系在一起的新自由主义形式区分开来。构建这些不同的干预文化模式是批判新自由主义健康方法的一种手段，这些方法提倡改变个人行为的技术解决方案。最终，当应用于“阿根廷语境”时，这种结构作为对以个人为导向的减少危害项目的局限性的政治评论。构建这些不同的干预文化模式是批判新自由主义健康方法的一种手段，这些方法提倡改变个人行为的技术解决方案。最终，当应用于“阿根廷语境”时，这种结构作为对以个人为导向的减少危害项目的局限性的政治评论。构建这些不同的干预文化模式是批判新自由主义健康方法的一种手段，这些方法提倡改变个人行为的技术解决方案。最终，当应用于“阿根廷语境”时，这种结构作为对以个人为导向的减少危害项目的局限性的政治评论。