Andrew Tatarsky and Maia Szalavitz: How 'Harm Reduction' Is Transforming Drug Policy
As the drug war retreats, individualist approaches to substance use and abuse will make us all better off.
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As the drug war retreats, individualist approaches to substance use and abuse will make us all better off.
If you did have a slip, would one slip be a catastrophe? yeah. 0nce slip would kill me. seriously? seriously. genuinely, seriously, one slip would kill me, because i would feel like there would be no going back. broken promises again, this is the thing i have tried to understand with the academy about finding your values, your core values. to me that's scary, because you're setting your own bar so high, you're incredibly tough on yourself. yeah, you need to be, you need to be disciplined. and if i'm not a disciplined i'll fall. at birkenhead, mike's not the only one who's been struggling. just...
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The sort of place we know can be especially vulnerable to drug and alcohol problems. but this is a community which is fighting back. and here in birkenhead they've come up with this concept of a recovery village. what is that? a recovery village? there are already loads of different services here working to help people struggling with addiction, but now they're working together in much closer cooperation so the rehab hub, the recovery cafe down here, and the place where groups meet for mutual support round the corner, they're all working on really close co—ordination to get people off the dr...
Because i would feel like there would be no going back. broken promises again, this is the thing i have tried to understand with the academy about finding your values, your core values. to me, that's scary, because you're setting your own barso high, you're incredibly tough on yourself. yeah, you need to be, you need to be disciplined. and if i'm not disciplined, i'll fall. at birkenhead, mike's not the only one who's been struggling. just across the mersey from liverpool, this place took the full force of the 1980s recession, as the shipyards failed and unemployment rose and heroin and other ...