Karla Ghartey, RN, MN, is a professor of nursing, a founding member of Sudbury unsanctioned overdose prevention group, and a mom. I asked her about the overlap of those three areas, for her. The words that emerged were:

Harm reduction: fostering independence and preventing people (kids and people who inject drugs) from killing themselves

People who inject drugs: how we refer to people in a given community and not defining those people by one need or aspect of life