{"id":22922,"date":"2024-06-06T08:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22922"},"modified":"2024-06-06T08:09:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:09:58","slug":"harm-reduction-strategy-for-homeless-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22922","title":{"rendered":"Harm reduction strategy for homeless Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recovering from drug or alcohol addiction is often not a straight line from addiction to complete sobriety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes it requires a reduction in the impact of substances instead of completely avoiding them, an approach called harm reduction.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/131702\/harm-reduction-strategy-for-homeless-veterans\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/131702\/harm-reduction-strategy-for-homeless-veterans\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"60\" class=\"wp-image-20064\" style=\"width: 250px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png 418w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov) Recovering from drug or alcohol addiction is often not a straight line from addiction to complete sobriety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,7],"tags":[1350,981,1351,87,245],"class_list":["post-22922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homelessness","category-veterans-benefits","tag-harm-reduction","tag-homeless-veteran","tag-hud-va-supportive-housing-hud-vash-program-a","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22923,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22922\/revisions\/22923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}