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Meeting drinking patients where they're at: A sea change for many
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33179
Subject(s) - abstinence , mantra , harm reduction , nothing , harm , fentanyl , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , psychiatry , psychology , social psychology , anesthesia , family medicine , philosophy , theology , epistemology
There's nothing new about the idea of harm reduction: helping people who use drugs avoid overdose by telling them how to test for illicit fentanyl, helping them avoid HIV by encouraging them to use clean needles and syringes, and so on. But in the alcohol treatment world, for decades the mantra has been abstinence, abstinence, abstinence.