Tag: harm reduction

  • Changing Addiction Language for Better Understanding

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    I write a lot here about language and how words – especially those used in the field of addiction – don’t actually define what we mean to say. Words like “substance use disorder,” “mental health,” and others. Imagine how much farther ahead we’d be if we say that someone has “addiction” rather than a “substance…

  • Death by Degrees?

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    GuidaBrown
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    “Harm reduction” has been defined myriad ways. The “Godfather of Harm Reduction,” Dan Bigg, referred to it as “the principle of reducing the negative consequences associated with drug use.” The organization he co-founded, the Chicago Recovery Alliance (CRA), uses the phrase “any positive change.” (https://www.thechicagoschool.edu/insight/news/any-positive-change/) The National Harm Reduction Coalition says that “harm reduction is a…