The Principles of Harm Reduction:

humanism, pragmatism, individualism, autonomy, incrementalism, and accountability without termination.

Focus

Reinforce any positive change and on working with people without judgement, coercion, discrimination, or requiring that they stop using drugs as a precondition of support.

Dan Bigg
FOUNDING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PERMANENT GUIDE FOR ANY POSITIVE CHANGE

Dan was one of the founders of Chicago Recovery Alliance (CRA) and, for the last 28 years, Dan has been the Director of the CRA. Over the last 28 years under his leadership we have been guided by CRA participants to develop programming to prevent opioid-related overdose deaths with naloxone distribution; avoid viral hepatitis with safer injection and hepatitis A/B vaccination, and pilot test mobile opioid substitution therapies. Dan also helped start the US Harm Reduction Coalition and was a Project Developer for the International Harm Reduction Institute of the Open Society. Dan left this world in August 2018, but his legacy lives on in the work we do and the lives he saved.

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