Harm reduction is an effective way of help people with addiction issues, it meets the addicts where they are on their journey and doesn’t try to force abstinence on them, which let’s face it, tends to backfire! “Harm reduction allows us to assess each person individually and plan treatment that is tailored to the individual’s relationship with alcohol and other drugs. It also incorporates other important problems: emotional disorders, family problems, social alienation, and medical complications. (Denning, 2001.)” This allows the people to have other focuses without losing sight of addiction and it is unique in the sense that patients don’t have to commit to abstinence. Well the other pillars do show benefits they “are still problematic and
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Activities such as this are not judged by a reduction of the whole number of downhill mountain bikers being reduced, but by whether the deaths and injuries that occur have been reduced. “Mayor Sam Sullivan also spoke to the conference, he likened (harm reduction) to providing crutches to injured athletes on the mend (Elrod, 2007.)” Sullivan also asked us to consider if “wounded skiers would be more motivated to recover if we took away their wheelchairs, ramps and parking spaces (Elrod, 2007.)” He also made a point of saying “as a father of three daughters, if all else failed, I would rather find them alive in a brothel or at a safe-injection site than dead on a pig farm (Elrod, 2007.)” An ex nurse (now an executive director of the non-profit organization, who along with Vancouver Coastal Health, runs Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site) spoke up on the topic saying “I thought helping those with addiction was simple. We
Activities such as this are not judged by a reduction of the whole number of downhill mountain bikers being reduced, but by whether the deaths and injuries that occur have been reduced. “Mayor Sam Sullivan also spoke to the conference, he likened (harm reduction) to providing crutches to injured athletes on the mend (Elrod, 2007.)” Sullivan also asked us to consider if “wounded skiers would be more motivated to recover if we took away their wheelchairs, ramps and parking spaces (Elrod, 2007.)” He also made a point of saying “as a father of three daughters, if all else failed, I would rather find them alive in a brothel or at a safe-injection site than dead on a pig farm (Elrod, 2007.)” An ex nurse (now an executive director of the non-profit organization, who along with Vancouver Coastal Health, runs Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site) spoke up on the topic saying “I thought helping those with addiction was simple. We