SY29-1 * HARM REDUCTION VS ABSTINENCE

Moderate Drinking, Harm Reduction, and Abstinence Outcomes

Starting in the 1970s and leading up to the present day, William Miller and his colleagues have been collecting experimental data about a moderate drinking intervention called Behavioral Self Control Training (BSCT) which has given us a lot of interesting data about who succeeds with a moderate drinking goal, who succeeds with an abstinence goal, who achieves a harm reduction goal, and who fail...

Harm Reduction: Good Practice in Asia Integration of Harm Reduction into Abstinence-based Therapeutic Communities

Chapter 1 Harm reduction and the mainstream

Harm reduction encompasses interventions, programmes and policies that seek to reduce the health, social and economic harms of drug use to individuals, communities and societies. We envisage harm reduction as a ‘combination intervention’, made up of a package of interventions tailored to local setting and need, which give primary emphasis to reducing the harms of drug use. We note the enhanced ...

[Total abstinence or harm reduction--different strategies of alcohol treatment in research studies and international guidelines].

Alcohol use is considered to be one of the major factors contributing to global health burden as well as social and economic harm. Only about 16% of alcohol dependent individuals enter addiction treatment programs in Poland, with only a few more in Western Europe. The aim of the paper was to present two main treatment strategies of alcohol dependence: total abstinence and harm reduction. The ad...

Integrating harm reduction and abstinence-based substance abuse treatment in the public sector.

Harm reduction and abstinence-based substance abuse treatment can not only be integrated, but their integration is more powerful than either separately. This integration has more positive effects than either model separately on the large problem of patient retention in substance abuse treatment. This integration is particularly relevant for its utility and acceptance in the public sector. Examp...