Harm Reduction - Saving Lives or Enabling Drug Use? | Top of Mind S2 E6

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Maia Szalavitz was introduced to the concept of harm reduction while using illegal drugs in her 20s. A friendly woman advised her to clean the needles with bleach. She claims that kind gesture saved her life even though it was a few years before she kicked the drug habit. Harm reduction has evolved in the last 40 years. New York City just opened the first government-sanctioned supervised injection sites in the country. Can you accept somebody as they are without enabling their harmful behavior to continue? Are they mutually exclusive?

Guests:
Maia Szalavitz - author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Dr. Leslie Suen - addiction medicine specialist, UCSF
Darwin Fisher – Program Manager, Insite
Keith Humphreys - addiction researcher, professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
David Murray - co-director for the Center for Substance Abuse Policy Research, Hudson Institute
Brendan Cox - Director of Policing Strategies, LEAD National Support Bureau

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