Posted on 22/07/08
A simple dynamic
Guelph, Ont. -- As director of the largest treatment program for adult addiction disorders in the country, I found Margaret Wente's series of articles on harm reduction and Vancouver's supervised injection site to be a breath of fresh air. Our centre, too, offers a number of harm-reduction services, but they never are, nor will be, an option for the progressive brain disorder named addiction. To the addict, the drug is their solution and sobriety is the problem. Most well-intentioned policy-makers don't understand this simple dynamic, seeing abstinence as a punishment. Thank you, Ms. Wente, for shaking some complacent cages.
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