(BEN BULMER / iNFOnews.ca)
January 06, 2022 - 7:00 PM
The late Penticton physician Dr. Jeff Harries took a different approach in helping treat patients with Alcohol Use Disorder.
Harries spent 17 years out of his 30-year career taking a new approach in treating the disorder, with a combination of medicines and treatment protocols that reduce alcohol cravings and withdrawal symptoms.
“There’s a disconnect between what the science is telling us, and what’s being used on the ground. It’s a huge chasm of ignorance,” Harries said in an Interior Health produced 23-minute video.
Harries believed it was important for physicians to realize the disorder is more than a health-care problem and can impact many other parts of society.
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“Hope is such an important part of the recovery, for them to have hope, and for people around them to have hope,” Dr. Harries said.
Vice-chair of the Canadian Alcohol Use Disorder Society Bruce Harries said in video that a person with the disorder has a less than 1% chance of receiving appropriate medication.
There are currently six medication treatment options for the disorder.
“They won’t all work for everybody, but something will work for nearly everybody,” Harries said.
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