In recent years, the Not-In-My-Back-Yard (NIMBY) phenomenon has become increasingly prevalent with regard to harm reduction sites, addiction treatment facilities and their clients.
When that happens, he'll find himself in a province with some of the country's most forward-thinking harm reduction and addiction treatment programs; a different world than the one he experienced behind bars.
Instead, they have allowed resources to be redirected towards the treatment system, with dramatic reductions in addiction, HIV infections and drug-related deaths.
Perhaps in future e-cigarettes will be an integral facet to harm-reduction in addiction medicine -- we should not discount this possibility and encourage it if found safe and effective through more extensive research.
"We are working with many others including harm reduction and addictions experts, police, the coroner and the federal government to find solutions, but in the meantime, we must make sure patients get the care they need," he said.
As the hurricane approached the coast, harm reduction groups and addiction treatment programs were readying their emergency plans and handing out naloxone, the overdose antidote. .
The FCTC requires that states implement legislation that protects their citizens from deleterious health effects such as secondhand smoke, and design national programs that target a reduction in nicotine addiction.
A harm-reduction approach to addiction must supplement an abstinence-based approach; otherwise we are in danger of abandoning the people we need to reach most.
And if behaviour is changing, then the brain is changing, says Katie Witkiewitz, a clinical psychology researcher who has studied the potential for mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) to cure addiction among prison inmates.
For example, Hatsukami D, Cummings K and Eissenberg T, the top three ranked in T1, are all senior tobacco researchers who mainly focus on tobacco addiction characterization, reduction and/or treatment.
