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Harm Reduction Theory
Substance Use Management: A Harm Reduction-Principled Approach
A Process to go with the Options: Respect and CollaborationSUM replaces the indoctrination of the disease model of addiction ideology so common in the treatment system today with an ideology of actual…
Posted on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 03:00
Substance Use Management: A Harm Reduction-Principled Approach
Substance Use Management: A Harm Reduction-Principled Approach to Assisting the Relief of Drug-Related ProblemsDan Bigg, CRADC Chicago Recovery AllianceAbstract:Disease has increased our motivation to…
Posted on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 03:00
The Psychoanalytic Contribution
During the twenty years that I have worked with people with drug problems; my conviction has grown that psychoanalytic thinking about these issues offers the most powerful framework for helping people…
Posted on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 03:00
The Value of Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies
I treated my first alcohol-using client at the psychotherapy clinic at the City College of New York, where I received my Ph.D. The training program oriented its students in a theoretical approach base…
Posted on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 03:00
The Current Context: What Is Wrong With This Picture?
Mainstream abstinence-oriented treatment of alcohol and drug users in the United States today continues to have poor success by anyone's criteria. Clinical observations and empirical studies typically…
Posted on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 03:00
Harm Reduction to Moderation
From Introduction to book: Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol ProblemsTom: Harm Reduction to Moderation - Andrew TatarskyIdeas have different meanings at different mome…
Posted on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 03:00
Overdose Prevention and Response
This is the second book of a ?eld guide series for drug user activist organizations and harm reduction workers in Eastern Europe. More guides are available at www.soros.org/harm-reduction.…
Posted on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 03:00
Harm Reduction Psychotherapy
The public health system continues to struggle with the challenge of attending to the needs of a drug-using population in the current climate of zero tolerance and the war on drugs. The mental health …
Posted on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 03:00
Overview of harm reduction treatments for alcohol problems
By Katie Witkiewitz a, G. Alan Marlatt b a Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 W. Harrison St., M/C 285, Chicago, IL 60607, USA; b University of Washington, USA Internati…
Posted on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 03:00
Harm Reduction Works
The Harm Reduction approach is based on compassionate pragmatism instead of moralistic idealism. It recognizes that a minority of people have always abused alcohol and always will. It doesn't condone …
Posted on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 03:00
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