Harm Reduction is exactly what it sounds like, the desire to reduce harm. If you are not actively wanting to do harm there is no reason to oppose the ideas around harm reduction. We are looking to have a system that treats people with more respect than it currently does. Does that mean when we get you to treat people better, we will stop, no it doesn’t. Because when you treat people a little better, we will ask you to once again reevaluate and treat people even better than that.
Maia mentions in this episode 2 things I want to point to specifically.
1. That to practice harm reduction we have to look at risks in context and identify what harms we are looking to reduce.
2. If you are treating someone with respect and dignity you are practicing harm reduction. Maia Szalavitz is the author of 3 books Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, and her latest from Hachette Go Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction.
Maia Szalavitz is the author of 3 books
Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
and her latest from Hachette GoUndoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
Questions for treatment center groups
1. What are the rules you have around for yourself around using your DOC? How do those rules affect how you have treated others in respect to relationships similar to that which you have to your DOC? Can you approach that in a more respectful way?
2. What are the rules of your treatment center around intoxication? How does that affect your relationship with your treatment center?
3. How have you been treated on your journey into recovery? What aspects of that were most helpful? Least helpful? Why?
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