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Your Crisis Coach is feeling curious in California.

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Do you think “safe drug injection sites" work?

These 2 things are simultaneously true, and highlight how challenging this public health issue is:

- Harm reduction saves lives
- Places where harm reduction practices are being used have seen an increase in fatal overdoses

In my article about this in the SF Weekly, I recommend that more aggressive interventions be done on users at safe drug spaces, with the hope being that we can interrupt the drug use and transition them to a medication-assisted treatment (MAT) program. You can read it here:

In almost forty years of working with people to help them overcome an addiction, I have witnessed countless times the most painful loss a...

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Codependency is the behavior of loved ones that contributes to someone’s substance use disorder (SUD).

Typically, a “codependent enabler” is a spouse or parent who helps make the SUD possible by providing money, housing, or otherwise protecting the person from feeling the negative repercussions of their behavior.

Codependency is a concept that is widely credited to author Melody Beattie, whose 1986 best seller “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself” brought the concept into mainstream awareness.

Read more in my article about codependency below.

Codependency is the behavior of friends or loved ones that contributes to someone’s substance use disorder (SUD).

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