FORMAL LAUNCH OF HARM REDUCTION THERAPY IN LATIN AMERICA

Patt Denning, PhD, & Jeannie Little, LCSW, Founders and Directors Emeritae of HRTC

In August we (Patt and Jeannie) spent two weeks in Chile to support the launch of the Iberoamerican Institute for Harm Reduction (iiREDA) and the Spanish translation of our book Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy.

500 people were invited to participate in one of two conferences, one held in the capital Santiago, the other in the more southerly city of Temuco.  Co-sponsored by iiREDA and by SENDA, Chile’s national drug and alcohol agency, both conferences were well-attended and very successful in pushing the harm reduction movement forward both in the treatment and in the government policy realms.

iiREDA’s mission is to lead the implementation of harm reduction throughout Latin America and Spain by promoting an approach to people who use drugs based on public health, human rights and an ecological and biopsychosocial view of the person in society.  Based on an ethical conception that respects individual rights, iiREDA embraces the principles of unconditional acceptance and empathy and promotes the participation of the people most affected by drugs.

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