I agree with Dr. Black that the harm reduction philosophy is kind of.... I guess that's the standard with which we have to start, but we don't have enough treatment facilities when they are required. With regard to harm reduction, there's actually a very specific way to use harm reduction in therapy. It is a proactive, a family and an educational issue, but within therapy, it's very specific, looking at ways that children or youth can start examining their own use, whether it creates harm in other ways that they might want to reduce, and whether they are interested in reducing harm and able to see it. There's the therapeutic modality of harm reduction as well as the philosophy that kind of is the overarching ideal.
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