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Practical Harm Reduction Strategies
NAEH Annual Conference July 2015
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Outline of Presentation
Harm Reduction: definitions and origins
Harm Reduction in the broader society
Typical Harm Reduction strategies employed with homeless individuals
Harm Reduction strategies in housing with case examples
Discuss audience examples
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Overview of Harm Reduction: Definitions
Harm Reduction:
Reducing harm
associated with high
risk behaviors to
improve quality of life
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Where Can We Apply Harm Reduction
Health Finances Social Relationships Mental Health Weight Loss Exercise Intimate Relationship
Person Sets Priorities (and society offers support)
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Protective equipment (optional to required)
Harm Reduction in Everyday Life
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Automobile Use/Abuse:
Environmental/passive protections: highway guard rails, air bags
Optional protections (possibly required): seatbelts, child seats, designated driver
Harm Reduction in Everyday Life
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Harm Reduction: Substance Use
is a set of practical strategies to reduce the negative consequences of drug use (and symptoms) incorporates a spectrum of strategies from safer use to abstinence
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Overview of Harm Reduction: Origins
1920s
British System and Rolleston Report
1960s -80s
The Dutch Model, users unions, and needle exchange
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1989-present
Canada starts public policy based on harm reduction
Mid to late 1980s
US grassroots agencies start pursuing harm reduction models
Early to mid-1980s
The Mersey (Liverpool) Harm Reduction Model
Overview of Harm Reduction: Origins
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www.desc.org
safety
drug traffic/trade
drug dealing
intoxication
Common Substance Use Concerns
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What Harm Reduction is not
Passive
Anything goes
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
Enabling
A hook to get people to treatment
A direct path to abstinence
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Why Harm Reduction?
"My case manager
doesn't judge me."
"Even when I mess
up, my CDP doesn't
judge me...they just
support me."
Failure vs Small Successes
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Harm Reduction with Client Buy-In
Needle exchange
Alcohol Monitoring
Methadone (substitution therapy)
Reducing amount used
Condom use
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Harm Reduction with Client Buy-In
Using a screen or rubber tubing for crack use
Getting off the bus two stops earlier and walking
Paying Rent before buying substances
Changing use patterns
CD Groups/treatment with harm reduction focus
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Harm Reduction without active client participation
Medication distribution Case Management Education around safer use practices Protective Payeeship
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Outreach/engagement Welfare checks Coordination of care with PCP Room inspections/chore services Narcan/naloxone
Harm Reduction without active client participation
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Harm Reduction example (with or without client buy-in)
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Harm Reduction example (with or without client buy-in)
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Harm Reduction example (with or without client buy-in)
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Challenges for staff
Client Trust/Staff Turnover
Concern about “endorsing” substance use
How to balance positive regard for individual vs. accepting the behavior
Fear of doing the wrong thing
The need to see measurable success
Stress leads to desire for rules/structure
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49 years old, highly personable and cooperative
HIV+, mobility impairment (has one leg)
alcohol dependent, pattern of violent outbursts when intoxicated
never hurts anyone badly, but over time creates increasingly stressful environment for all residents
staff reaction varies and drifts from “we need to keep him housed” to “he’s not working hard enough”
universal concern about him being homeless given health and mobility problems
Case Study: James
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A. Discuss priorities with staff: housing preservation vs. insisting on behavior change
B. Wring hands and gnash teeth C. Make him homeless to teach him a lesson D. Teach assertiveness and limit setting to other residents E. Involve law enforcement
F. Prevail upon James’s sense of responsibility to the larger community, make him promise to do better
G. Use money control H. Interfere with bingeing - alcohol management I. Ask James to help with projects J. Involve James in sober social activities
What do you do?
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43 years old, spunky and friendly, well known to agency staff
has schizophrenia, borderline PD, HIV, addiction to crack and alcohol
trades sex for drugs; sells personal property
brings predatory people into building
frequently assaulted on street, possibly also in building
usually refuses medical care
Case Study: Tammy
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A. Focus interventions on harm reduction B. Negotiate visitor agreement C. Develop protocol to follow when having
visitors D. Eviction E. Provide STD education F. Tolerate behaviors G. Bolt TV to wall H. Appeal to men paying her
What do you do?
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Resources
Marlatt, GA et al. (Eds.). Harm reduction: pragmatic strategies for managing high risk behaviors. Guilford Press, 2011. Denning, P. and Little, J. Practicing harm reduction psychotherapy: An alternative approach to addictions. Guilford Press, 2011. desc.org/research.html