SayingSeven
Bluelighter
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- Nov 12, 2013
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Often on forums such as Bluelight I find that when someone asks a question or makes a comment that reveals that they are using heroin or other opiates while also being on methadone maintenance or buprenorphine substitution, they are bombarded with judgement by people who say that someone who still uses while on maintenance treatment is just taking the spot of someone else who "really wants to recover". But whenever I hear experts in the field of harm reduction talk about the benefits of methadone and bupe, they talk about them as beneficial in that they reduce a person's intake of illegal street drugs, not that they always eliminate drug-taking completely. If someone is on methadone, holding down a job and paying rent, and using heroin a couple times a month when they have some extra cash, isn't that still much better than not having a job, living on the street, and having to come up with money for heroin every day?
So why all the judgement? As an advocate of harm reduction, I would say any change for the better is a good thing.
So why all the judgement? As an advocate of harm reduction, I would say any change for the better is a good thing.