Harm reduction is a concept among healthcare workers that seeks to reduce the negative health consequences of drug abuse. The principles of harm reduction call for an acceptance of the fact that, good or bad, illicit drugs exist in today’s society. Instead of ignoring drug users, harm reduction practitioners actively work with them to promote safer use strategies and decrease the health damage of drug abuse. The effort of harm reduction is always helping, not judging, the individual. Although

previously focused exclusively on narcotic drugs of abuse, harm reduction principles can (and should) also be developed for steroid users, a group that rarely has the benefit of full physician oversight in its drug programs. In an effort to further this goal, ANABOLICS has outlined the following principles of steroid harm reduction. If followed, these principles should measurably reduce the negative health impact of steroid use, making it a safer (although not completely safe) practice.