Why I Support Managed Alcohol Programs
I have to start this post by first asking you all to keep an open mind. I understand often the harm reduction model is not easy to accept. I, myself, do not believe I would have found sobriety in such a program, but I was lucky. By the time I hit the streets I had gone through a detox. Some people are not so lucky and drugs and alcohol have complete control over them. Trying to help a homeless friend in Los Angeles is what changed my mind, and why I requested to visit such a facility. My friend has been homeless since his mother died. After years of trying to drinking his pain away there is not much of my friend left. Alcohol has completely taken over his life. His liver is damaged so much there are sores on his leg. The sores are so bad he cannot wear pants. He ties bandannas around his leg so the sores are not visible. Any normal person would have stopped drinking. But my homeless friend cannot stop on his own. He will die homeless because Los Angeles has yet to adopt the harm reduction model. Any absence based program WILL NOT WORK for my friend. It breaks my heart! This week I visited an a managed alcohol program in Ottawa, Canada. The Oaks Residence is a unique partnership between the Shepherds of Good Hope, Inner City Health and Canadian Mental Health Association. Residents are given an hourly “dose” of alcohol in a clean and safe supervised environment. At first I was a little shocked walking in. All the residents were carrying cups, which I knew were filled with …
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Help my parents drink and I don’t like alcohol I want them to stop and they do get drunk and I keep telling them it’s bad because I learned it in health class but they keep saying I don’t know as munch as them I’ve tried everything help please
I love this video, thankyou to the people who had the wisdom and love in their hearts to accept and promote this wisdom in society
I watched this with an open mind.And know something,I AM convinced!And I am an alcoholic with 7 years sober and 10 years clean (except my weed I still love).I know of Harm Reduction from Hollywood & San Francisco.I see its benefit.Main priority is keep folks ALIVE with best quality of life then they will see For Themselves (hopefully if) they need to make The Change (sobriety).TOO MANY of my homeless friends can NOT stop drinking,they won’t be accepted into programs.This will save lives.
yo you knowwhat, i feel what you are saying about a wet shelter. 12 steps are a joke, excluding most people. and i am here at my mom’s house every 3 days to clean up and check online. i drink all day and night, and sleep out. but, this interview is whack, holding this guy hostage for this much time, for so little views online.
people sit on their ass and doing nothing stop listening to the media and government WAKE THE FUCK UP SHEEP HOW MUCH MORE INFO YOU NEED
@cdw100
“if everyone decided to do drugs or booze, our society would collapse”
Which has what to do with harm reduction?
Oh yeah, not a goddamn thing – because most people avoid fucking up their lives enough to deal with a medical establishment. Now what else might your concern have to do with harm reduction?
Right, absofuckinglutely nothing, because it holds (or not, and the evidence points to “not”) regardless of societal reaction.
You retard-babble memes you have no ability to analyze.
Harm reduction is only treatment delay. The huge moral hazard of harm reduction is that if everyone decided to do drugs or booze, our society would collapse. In my work I see the same folks for 10 to 20 years as addicts, I would think that we not forget that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Harm reduction is based on the idea that no one is responsible for their own health, this is just wrong.
COMMON SENSE I love it ! Makes sense to have a harm reduction program.