《减少危害》杂志发表的研究集中于精神活性药物的普遍使用模式、旨在控制它们的公共政策，以及寻找有效的方法来减少药物和药物政策所带来的医疗、公共卫生和社会后果。我们将“减少危害”定义为“旨在减少合法和非法使用精神活性药物的健康、社会和经济成本，但不一定减少药物消费的政策和项目”。
Harm Reduction Journal publishes research focusing on the prevalent patterns of psychoactive drug use, the public policies meant to control them, and the search for effective methods of reducing the adverse medical, public health, and social consequences associated with both drugs and drug policies. We define 'harm reduction' as 'policies and programs which aim to reduce the health, social, and economic costs of legal and illegal psychoactive drug use without necessarily reducing drug consumption'.
