This topic has been discussed briefly in previous blogs but it deserves another look. Harm reduction methods such as methadone and suboxone maintenance programs have reduced the risks of sudden death by overdose, hepatitis B and C and HIV transmission...
A May 26, 2018 article that appeared in the Windsor Star “In the Shadows: People living on Windsor’s streets struggle in Times of Plenty” by Dave Battagello made me think how properly funded Harm Reduction treatment (discussed in the previous...
Abstinence refers to complete avoidance of all mood-altering substances in Recovery. Harm Reduction, on the other hand, has often come to mean: the substitution or “replacement” of a toxic addictive substance with a less dangerous but analogous prescribed medication. Recently,...