Nick Heather on Harm Reduction where it 'properly applies'

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Nick Heather PHD
Nick Heather PHD
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VIDEO NUMBER:
262
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Harm Reduction
DATE ADDED:
16-12-2009
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Nick talks about the work of Mansell Pattison in the 1970s of ‘attenuated drinking’ and makes other points about the goals of controlled drinking and moderation. “It’s when you extend that principle (of harm reduction) to everybody, I think, that you get the problems.”
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Footnotes
1) Paper: Pattison, E. (1976). Nonabstinent drinking goals in the treatment of alcoholism.
Pattison, E. (1976). Nonabstinent drinking goals in the treatment of alcoholism. Archives of General Psychiatry, 33, 923-930.
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