In July, the Trump administration introduced an executive order (EO) championing treatment for drug addiction while trashing harm reduction. The administration’s view is that harm reduction undermines substance use disorder treatment and enables drug use. But this fundamentally misunderstands the approach and why treatment needs harm reduction if we’re going to stop the overdose crisis. […]
Author Archives: Stacey McKenna
Stacey McKenna, PhD., is a resident senior fellow for Integrated Harm Reduction Policy Policy at R Street. She wrote this for InsideSources.com.
