Heroin Program's Deadly Toll
harm-reduction leaders have struggled to address a sometimes-lethal issue: dangerous drug use by the very workers who are supposed to help users. In the circles of New York and San Francisco where Mr. Morse worked, at least five harm-reduction staffers have died of overdoses. These included needle-exchange founders in both cities, as well as psychologist John Watters, a needle-exchange advocate who started a study to track how outreach programs benefited ... Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
How is this problem substantively different from MDs who become addicted to the drugs they prescribe, and whose colleagues all too often feel that they need to help in coverups rather than in therapeutic or supervisory interventions?