How to Change Your Drinking: A Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol - Softcover

Anderson, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1453636617 ISBN 13: 9781453636619

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub, 2010

Synopsis

This is the handbook of The HAMS Harm Reduction Network. HAMS is a support and informational group for people who want to make any positive change in their drinking habits, ranging from safer drinking to reduced drinking to quitting. This handbook is a compendium of practical strategies for changing your drinking for the better.

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About the Author

Kenneth Anderson is the founder and CEO of The HAMS Harm Reduction Network. HAMS is the first world-wide, harm reduction-based support group specifically for people who drink alcohol. HAMS is lay-led and free-of-charge. Mr. Anderson has worked in the field of harm reduction since 2002. His wide range of experience includes serving as Director of Online Services at Moderation Management, and working "in the trenches" of harm reduction doing needle exchange in Minneapolis. He has presented at the National Harm Reduction Conference and has been a regular guest speaker at the Harlem Hospital Harm Reduction Program, The Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center, and many other venues. Mr. Anderson is a member of The International Center for Clinical Excellence, the Global Alcohol Harm Reduction Network, and the International Harm Reduction Association. He holds a masters degree in linguistics from the University of Minnesota and is currently pursuing a masters degree in psychology and substance abuse counseling at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1453636617
• ISBN 13: 9781453636619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 273