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"First, Do No Harm:" A Review of "Harm Reduction Psychotherapy"

Author(s): 
Andrew Tatarsky
Reviewer: 
Neal M. Goldsmith, PhD, & John H. Halpern

Andrew Tatarsky, an innovative clinical psychologist practicing in Manhattan, has produced a timely and targeted professional document-of-practice. Timely, because the idea of harm reduction (making drug policy not based on punishment, but on the broadest possible assessment of the net-least harm to society) is just beginning to be accepted in policy and practice. Targeted, because it is a document of and for clinical practice, one that cuts across theoretical orientations.

'The Dope Craze that's Terrorizing Vancouver'

I recently heard a senior city planner say that economic decline in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside preceded the drug problem now associated with the area. The point he was making was valid -- that the drug trade didn't cause the decline -- but his history was nevertheless skewed.

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