Sentences with phrase «harm reduction»

Already in the early 2000s, Iranian legislators managed to get the council's approval for the controversial and progressive set of harm reduction measures.

If harm reduction strategies were explicitly mentioned by statute the situation would be very different.

For patients interested in making changes in their substance use, I offer medication options along with harm reduction counseling.

Early childhood intervention that enhances self - control is likely to bring a greater return on investment than harm reduction programs targeting adolescents alone (30).

Some further thoughts on changing the conversation on addiction... There's a lot of talk about harm reduction at the moment, with many debating how we can do it better.

Provide direct harm reduction services to youth and young adults who identify as homeless, in - crisis, and / or runaway up to the age of 25 years old.

A needle exchange that explicitly encouraged IV drug use is not what I would call harm reduction, or at least I would expect it not to.

I would love to get involved with harm reduction.

Conducted training in Harm Reduction of Substance Abuse for intern clinicians at Haight Ashbury Psychological Services

(They'll meet outside Harm Reduction Coalition office, 22 West 27th St., and march to NYC Morgue at Bellevue Hospital at 462 1st Ave. for the rally).

For all its domestic refusal to listen to evidence on drugs, the UK has a decent record of pushing for movement on harm reduction strategies at the UN and a tough approach to any country carrying out executions on drug crimes.

«In reviewing the limited evidence on medical cannabis, it appears that patients and others who have advocated for cannabis as a tool for harm reduction and mental health have some valid points,» said Walsh.

I would characterize my approach most succinctly as harm reduction therapy, a form of therapy that emphasizes acceptance and collaboration.

We will introduce and review psychoanalytic theories specifically relevant to the treatment of substance misuse and show how they dovetail with Harm Reduction therapy.

Reviewing a new report by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) on the role of e-cigarettes in tobacco harm reduction, Professor John Britton and colleagues argue that e-cigarettes and other non-tobacco nicotine products «offer the potential to radically reduce harm from smoking in our society.

The reason is quite straightforward and you touch upon it in the question: There is still no consensus on same - sex marriage between EU member countries (just as there isn't on drug harm reduction policies, prostitution, gambling, euthanasia, abortion, or surrogacy).

Responsibility rather than regulation Given the escalating problems of alcohol misuse, the drinks industry was awaiting the UK government's Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England with some trep

Harm reduction approaches along with psychiatric consultation are often recommended.

Todd came to Gestalt Therapy through Harm Reduction drug counseling, specifically with homeless young adults.

Erie County a Leader in Opioid Harm Reduction Efforts; New Initiative to Place Narcan in Public's Hands (04/02/2015)

This is currently happening in Toronto, where Harm Reduction Workers set up an illegal pop - up overdose prevention site in Moss Park because they believed the opioid crisis is at a point where drug users in the city can not wait months for a legal supervised injection site...

We work with clients who are in 12 - step programs and those who choose Harm Reduction models.

It is also important that the scale up of HCV treatment occurs in combination with traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange which have previously also been shown to be highly cost effective.»

Three Waggoner Center graduate students provide evidence - based, harm reduction education to local middle - and high - school students.

Matthew Hickman, Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Bristol's School of Social and Community Medicine and lead author of the study, said: «Scaling up HCV treatment is critical to the prevention of HCV in the population to support and enhance traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange.

The Canadian filmmaker discusses his latest film, an unflinching documentary about harm reduction practices for drug users and sex workers in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood.

This exhibition examines thirty years of inspiring and defiant safer sex and harm reduction activism through the collections at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries

She is specialty trained in both Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and attachment focused EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) for processing trauma.

The therapuetic models that guide her approach include harm reduction, systems theory, dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, sexual health training, Gottman methods, and positive psychology.

As with every anti-smoking policy, the real intention is not harm reduction, but denormalisation.

The second panel on Harm Reduction featured Carolyn Bennett, Shaun Hopkins, Richard Elliot and Eugene Oscapella.

Regulating e-cigarettes is particularly controversial because they are sometimes used as harm reduction tools by established smokers.

This group is open to all who are attempting to place harm reduction on the agenda of churches, synagogues and mosques.

Other harm reduction programs (like needle exchanges) would never say that the IV drug use is safe or necessary.

Joelle Puccio, a perinatal nurse, breastfeeding advocate, and member of the drug policy reform group People's Harm Reduction Alliance disagrees with Hale.

RECOMMENDED READING: In terms of drug policy based around harm reduction, The Honest Drug Book offers a radical new perspective.

Who knew that behind those headlines we'd find yet more reasons to legalise and regulate the cannabis market, and possible evidence of a very successful harm reduction service?

Alcohol harm reduction analysts in Whitehall are increasingly convinced the «big bang» approach typified by the ban on smoking in public places is the most realistic way to cut alcohol - related deaths in the UK.

Defying the government on this issue will not be easy, but given their outright refusal to introduce harm reduction measures, it may be necessary.

«This is something that, for a lot of people, is hard to understand and that's why we want to be an example of what harm reduction and syringe exchange can do for people's lives,» Aguilera continued.

The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), the Department of Health (DOH) and Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS), along with the national Harm Reduction Coalition and other partners, developed the training curriculum.