Addiction Treatment in the US and the UK Part 1: Harm Reduction vs Abstinence

Part one of a three part series comparing addiction medicine in the United States and the United Kingdom with special guest Dr. Brian Kidd. In this episode, our panelists discuss differing approaches to treating substance use disorder, treatment philosophies of abstinence and harm-reduction, and why they each were initially reluctant to enter the field of addiction medicine as well as why they find is so fulfilling now. Transcript

Panelists: John Ewing MD, David Nelson PhD, Cathy Couture MS, and Brian Kidd MD