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Entries by Dr. Peter Ferentzy from 03/2012

Vancouver's Insite: Not Just Addicts Who Benefit

| Posted 03.02.2012 | Canada
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Just as a city with less homophobia is more attractive to businesses, the same will soon apply to any urban centre that deals intelligently with drug addiction. The people at Vancouver's safe injection site are helping Vancouver's future as a business centre, an intellectual mecca, and a better place to live.

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Which Intervention is Best for Addicts - Brief, Long-term, or None?

| Posted 03.03.2012 | UK Politics
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A woman who had struggled with substance addiction, and who also had read my book, was now involved with helping others in her field (health care) get the counseling they need.

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Expecting People to be 'Freer' Than They Want to be - An Ironically Totalitarian Approach to Addiction

| Posted 03.31.2012 | UK Politics
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Resistance to harm reduction initiatives, and to legalisation or decriminalisation of drug use, stems from many impulses. Here I will discuss just one: an expectation placed upon the addicted.

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