While we’ve made great strides with harm reduction for people who use opioids, we’re slow to provide non-abstinence-based treatment for people who use other drugs.
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Is Recovery Possible Without Abstinence?
If I told an AA meeting I was having wine once in a while, the group would tell me that I am headed for certain demise.
Four Advocates on How Harm Reduction Can Change the Trajectory of the Opioid Crisis
There is overwhelming evidence that harm reduction keeps people alive and can bring them into recovery, yet it’s still met with opposition. We ask four harm reduction workers what inspires them and what we can do to help.
Anatomy of a Relapse
When my father died, I hadn’t been to a meeting in over a year. I had no active knowledge of how to apply healthy coping mechanisms to a devastating situation so I just went back to what I knew: opioids and numbness. Two years ago I wrote a controversial feature for The Fix, “I Take… Continue reading Anatomy of a Relapse