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Creating a Palliative Care Clinic for Patients with Cancer Pain and Substance Use Disorder

CAPC

An intervention founded on harm reduction principles in collaboration with addiction psychiatry for cancer-related pain.

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April is Alcohol Awareness Month. Here are resources for social workers

Social Work Blog

They also provide education around potential harm due to misuse and use treatment modalities that are flexible and work for both harm reduction and abstinence. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs): Clinical Resources for Social Work Practice. Drinking Levels Defined. Overview of alcohol consumption.

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Native Americans and Opioid Addiction: Understanding the Problem

Relias

To fight this epidemic, the Bad River Band of Chippewa implemented a holistic community-based harm reduction program to help people with addiction. By focusing foremost on reducing harm rather than just restricting use, it made strides in lowering overdose-related deaths. As a result, many resorted to heroin, then fentanyl.