The Pros And Cons Of “Harm Reduction”

Let’s see what we can learn.

Ted Bauer
6 min readMar 21

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It is very empowering, after years of failure and collapse and friend loss and marriage loss and all the rest, to finally just up and tell people, “Yes, I am an addict.” I think it’s important to say am in this case, because it’s an active condition that could resume at most flashpoints, so you need to check on it. I’m trying to do my best around all that for myself and my future, and while my platform is admittedly pretty small, I think enough people read (and maybe watch) my stuff that I could make a small dent in some thinking.

Here’s a bit on the throes of my problems:

And here is a new YouTube thing I’m trying out:

That should give you some context for my story to date. Now let’s talk about harm reduction.

You see the definition in the image above. Basically, I think the entire thing rests on “Look, people will always do drugs” (which is a hard thing for many to admit), so rather than trying to…

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Ted Bauer

Mostly write about work, leadership, friendship, masculinity, male infertility, and some other stuff along the way. It's a pleasure to be here.