Conventional abstinence-based treatment has not been effective in saving lives, says Tailfeathers, and so the grief-stricken Blackfoot community turned to a harm-reduction strategy in recent years.
As Tailfeathers documentary Kimmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy shows, that shift in strategy saved lives, in part through supervised consumption and the Blackfoot practice known as kimmapiiyipitssini – pronounced GEE-maa-bee-bit-sin and meaning giving kindness to each other.
Tailfeathers said many on the reserve initially weren t open to the concept of harm reduction, which doesn t necessarily require users to abstain.
Some felt methods such as opioid agonist therapy, which treats addiction through medications, were a form of enabling.
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