This is such good news for so many reasons. First, if the program uses cognitive behavioural approaches, I can’t see why it couldn’t be used as a treatment for existing addictions. And it’s very heartening to see the B.C., the home of “safe” supply drugs, is behind this. And finally, it’s good news that a pair of Canadian clinical psychologists are behind this. It gives me hope for the future of addictions treatment in Canada and a move away from the enabling, ineffective “harm reduction” approach.
Is safe supply not ineffective haem reductions ! ?
If a user really wants to use the only way you can help them get off there addiction is to remove them completely from any and all stimuli , our daughter went to rehab 4 times and she walked out of all of them, she walked away from her 2 daughters one of witch we have been raising for the past 9 years, and trust me when I saywe tried everything and anything we could to stop her drug use, but in the end she ran away and was found behind a dumpster in an alley in Calgary in a fentanyl coma and died when they removed her breathing tube as there was zero brain activity.
I’m so sorry that you had to go through this. I speak not only from the perspective of someone who worked with addicts professionally, but as a sister to a brother I lost to drugs. I do know that rehab does not always work. The grip drugs has over people is tight. But I also believe that prolonging the agony by feeding people drugs and calling it compassion is not the answer. The search for new treatments and approaches like this are more apt to continue if resources are not diverted constantly to approaches that have clearly failed.
I personally do not know of anybody that will not fit into at least one of those boxes and most people will fit into more than one.
This is such good news for so many reasons. First, if the program uses cognitive behavioural approaches, I can’t see why it couldn’t be used as a treatment for existing addictions. And it’s very heartening to see the B.C., the home of “safe” supply drugs, is behind this. And finally, it’s good news that a pair of Canadian clinical psychologists are behind this. It gives me hope for the future of addictions treatment in Canada and a move away from the enabling, ineffective “harm reduction” approach.
Is safe supply not ineffective haem reductions ! ?
If a user really wants to use the only way you can help them get off there addiction is to remove them completely from any and all stimuli , our daughter went to rehab 4 times and she walked out of all of them, she walked away from her 2 daughters one of witch we have been raising for the past 9 years, and trust me when I saywe tried everything and anything we could to stop her drug use, but in the end she ran away and was found behind a dumpster in an alley in Calgary in a fentanyl coma and died when they removed her breathing tube as there was zero brain activity.
I’m so sorry that you had to go through this. I speak not only from the perspective of someone who worked with addicts professionally, but as a sister to a brother I lost to drugs. I do know that rehab does not always work. The grip drugs has over people is tight. But I also believe that prolonging the agony by feeding people drugs and calling it compassion is not the answer. The search for new treatments and approaches like this are more apt to continue if resources are not diverted constantly to approaches that have clearly failed.