Mind On Mental Health · Penn Medicine - Princeton House Behavioral Health

Is the Disease Model of Addiction Outmoded?

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Ken explains how the opioid epidemic forced a shift from kicking people out of treatment to saving lives with harm reduction.
Andy Dean interviews Ken Pecoraro on the shift from abstinence-only to harm reduction in addiction treatment, discussing the impact of the opioid epidemic and debating the disease model's role in personal responsibility.

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A grounded, humane look at harm reduction in addiction care.

This episode keeps its focus on harm reduction in substance use treatment, with Andy Dean interviewing Ken Pecoraro of CPC Behavioral Health in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

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If you want harm reduction explained without the lecture, start here.

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