A graduate school curriculum in Drug Abuse and Addiction teaches harm reduction as a strategy to train drug abuse counselors. Inoculating these therapists with harm reduction only is an insidious way to promote drug use, drug abuse and addiction.
A man in Sweden wears a t-shirt with a phrase coined by Dr. Bertha Madras. Sweden’s drug policy has produced low youth drug usage.
The current drug overdoes epidemic is related to getting rid of in-school drug education and introducing “medical” marijuana followed by legalization It’s goes against all reason to legalize and commercialize a drug of abuse (marijuana) at a time that we have a drug epidemic. Preventing drug use is not a “War on Drugs! It is Defense of our Brains,” according to Dr. Bertha Madras of Harvard University.
The current heroin epidemic offers a chance to revise drug policies, particularly in terms of prevention. Since our entertainment industry, media and society idealize drugs, a first step would be a national drug education program in Continue reading Let’s Reconsider Drug Policy and Concentrate on Education→