08.05.2016

Working to Reduce HIV Risk among Persons Who Actively Use Substances

Webinar with Patt Denning, PhD. This webinar introduces participants to the principles and fundamental clinical interventions of harm reduction psychotherapy (HRP). As an integrated, biopsychosocial…

06.07.2016

Starting where the client is: Harm reduction guidelines for clinical social work practice (2016)
Vakharia, S. and Little, J. Clinical Social Work Journal. Vol 44 (1). DOI 10.1007/s10615-016-0584-3.

Harm reduction has gradually entered social work discourse and is now seen as a promising approach for treating individuals with drug and alcohol problems. Vakharia…

04.02.2016

Overdose deaths linked to pills containing fentanyl

An incredibly powerful painkiller responsible for thousands of overdose deaths on the East Coast in recent years is slipping into California’s illicit drug supply, a…

01.27.2016

The Opposite Of Addiction Is Not Sobriety – It Is Human Connection by Johann Hari

“It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned, and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been…

12.17.2015

The Office Holiday Party: An Interview with Dr. Patt Denning on “Morning Edition”

Dr. Patt Denning was interviewed on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition program. You can listen to the full story on KQED Public Radio, click here…

11.18.2015

Letter from the Executive Director: Jeannie Little, LCSW

We were very happy to spend a day last month with Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the…