"I see recovery as a long staircase and harm reduction is the first step. My counselor believed in harm reduction and he stayed with me as I decreased my use of heroin and crystal meth on the schedule I needed. His support allowed me to not feel like an 'f-up,' the name my father...
Harm reduction measures have helped drug users reduce the risk and severity of adverse consequences without leading to increases in overall levels of drug use in the general population. Indeed, in many cases harm reduction has been a vital first step towards recovery from addiction. This presentatio...
Harm reductionSubstance use disordersYouth treatmentBiopsychosocial developmentPurpose of Review Current interventions for adolescent substance use disorders demonstrate moderate efficacy and poor rates of long-term abstinence. As such, assessment of alternate,......
Harm reduction is now discussed as a new strategy for tobacco control. The strategy can, however, be pursued in several different ways. Some of those may reduce harm for the individual concerned, but might-at the same time-eventually not reduce the total harm done, from a public health ...
This paper argues, primarily by example, that mathematical modeling can contribute to harm reduction-orientated drug policy making in three ways: by contributing to quantitative evaluations of effectiveness, by improving data and understanding of the underlying drug-related phenomena, and by encouraging ...
Moreover, workarounds to staff safety protocols were necessary, including disregarding lone working protocols to ensure that service users were actually seen. Compromising one’s own safety appeared unavoidable in the face of unmanageable caseloads. Another perceived mismatch between healthcare policy and...
Adrenochrome's psychedelic properties, however, never actually panned out. And, as intriguing as those studies were, "they have been largely discredited due to, primarily, methodological failures. And I think they were unable to ever replicate any of the initial findings that were popularized," Ma...
Moreover, workarounds to staff safety protocols were necessary, including disregarding lone working protocols to ensure that service users were actually seen. Compromising one’s own safety appeared unavoidable in the face of unmanageable caseloads. Another perceived mismatch between healthcare policy and...
8.C 节题。 第一 “Moderate exercise improves mental health but overdoing it does more harm than good, researchers have found."可知,研 究人员发现,适当的锻炼能提高心理健康水平。 9.B 节 解题。 根据第四 中的“they would rate their mental health as ' not good' based on stress, depression ...
Actually, this classic view has been revised, because a frank distinction between “first-hit” and “second-hit” is not easy to make, leading to the “multiple-hit theory”[12]. Recent studies have shown that, independently from fat accumulation in the liver, obesity systemically leads to ...