Half a dozen public health experts said Mayor London Breed’s recent comments denigrating harm reduction went against best practice.
This man received a Covid vaccine as well as a fresh round of bandages. Nurses said he had edema from long-term drug use, and his pant legs were chafing, causing the wounds to bleed. He could only walk with extreme difficulty. Photo by Griffin Jones. July 8, 2023.“She’s wrong,” said Dr. Daniel Ciccarone, an addiction expert at UCSF who has authored several studies on fentanyl and overdose crises.
He said harm reduction “has its limits,” and that “even the people on the streets doing the harm reduction, keeping people off the floor” say that “these people need more.” “You have to look at each harm reduction intervention in terms of the specific harm it’s intended to reduce,” added Pollack. McCoy said eliminating or reducing harm reduction and focusing only on program such as abstinence-only recovery is shortsighted. There would be fewer avenues to help those who enter recovery and then relapse, for instance — something McCoy has seen time and time again.
“Everyone is upset, deservedly upset,” said Humprehys from Stanford. “Lots of people are dying, and that emotional environment often polarizines discussion and pushes people to maximalist policy positions … the passion outruns the evidence — on both sides.”
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