Harm reduction is an alternative for to deal with addiction (to drugs).
First of all addiction is not a crime, it is a mental disease.
What is harm reduction? It treats drug addicts like normal human beings and gives them life opportunities and has the lowest re-offending rate of any method.
What we currently do is we make drugs addicts life miserable, throw them in jail and make them feel worthless, we rip them from all opportunity and then expect them to go back to a normal life.