Starting with the core principles of harm reduction and anti- discrimination, Richard Lynch, a recently qualified probation officer with experience of residential drug rehabilitation and a street drugs agency, explores issues, dilemmas and models for good practice, illuminated by a case study illustrating that practitioners must not impose their own agenda of abstinence.
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