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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…