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What’s under the harm reduction umbrella? Parts one, two, and three (2015) Little, J, and Denning, P. The Fix Professional Voices.
Harm reduction therapy is poised to be the umbrella for treatment of substance use and co-occurring disorders in the 21st century. First developed in the…
Rethinking Alcohol: Can Heavy Drinkers Learn To Cut Back?
Please click here if you would like to read the article Rethinking Alcohol: Can Heavy Drinkers Learn To Cut Back? by Allison Aubrey.
A Harm Reduction Treatment Model – Part 2
By Patt Denning, PhD Based on the principles outlined in Part 1 and on empirically validated approaches, harm reduction psychotherapy (HRP) uses multiple interventions, depending…
Check out this article in April’s Atlantic magazine
Check out this article in April’s Atlantic magazine – it questions the wisdom of our culture’s reliance on Alcoholics Anonymous and proposes alternatives: The Irrationality…
The Third Wave
It’s harm reduction – the third major model for understanding and treating substance misuse, following the Moral and the Disease models of addiction. In short…
The Real Cause of Addiction
Addiction is not caused by drugs, nor by diseased people. The antecedents are far more complicated and the solution is human connection and fulfilling…