Prioritizing abstinence, if it comes at the expense of alternative policies like harm reduction, can itself be deadly, they warned. “Abstinence-only approaches to opioid-use disorder kills people,” ...

Now Sup. Matt Dorsey wants to push all the way back to the days when the primary solution to substance use was total ...

The “don’t do it” approach sees abstinence as the solution. In contrast, harm reduction, as defined by Harm Reduction International, aims to minimize the negative health, social and legal ...

Prioritizing abstinence, at the expense of alternative policies like “harm reduction,” can itself be deadly, they warned. “Abstinence-only approaches to substance use disorders kill people,” said Dr.