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From the Ted Talk by Mark Tyndall: The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment

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So there you have it. We have scientific evidence and successes from needle exchanges _________ and supervised injection sites. These are common-sense, _____________ approaches to drug use that improve health, bring connection and _______ reduce _________ and _____. So why haven't harm reduction programs taken off? Why do we still think that drug use is law enforcement issue? Our disdain for drugs and drug _____ goes very deep. We are bombarded with images and media stories about the horrible impacts of _____. We have stigmatized entire communities. We applaud military-inspired operations that bring down drug dealers. And we appear unfazed by building more jails to incarcerate people whose only _____ is using drugs.

Solution


  1. methadone
  2. crime
  3. users
  4. drugs
  5. death
  6. compassionate
  7. suffering
  8. greatly

Original Text


So there you have it. We have scientific evidence and successes from needle exchanges methadone and supervised injection sites. These are common-sense, compassionate approaches to drug use that improve health, bring connection and greatly reduce suffering and death. So why haven't harm reduction programs taken off? Why do we still think that drug use is law enforcement issue? Our disdain for drugs and drug users goes very deep. We are bombarded with images and media stories about the horrible impacts of drugs. We have stigmatized entire communities. We applaud military-inspired operations that bring down drug dealers. And we appear unfazed by building more jails to incarcerate people whose only crime is using drugs.

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Important Words


  1. applaud
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  3. bombarded
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  5. building
  6. communities
  7. compassionate
  8. connection
  9. crime
  10. dealers
  11. death
  12. deep
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  20. greatly
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  26. improve
  27. incarcerate
  28. injection
  29. issue
  30. jails
  31. law
  32. media
  33. methadone
  34. needle
  35. operations
  36. people
  37. programs
  38. reduce
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  40. scientific
  41. sites
  42. stigmatized
  43. stories
  44. successes
  45. suffering
  46. supervised
  47. unfazed
  48. users