Slim Survival II: Timing is Everything

The content discusses the ARMOR program, an addiction remission service, lauded for its methodology. However, it is revealed that its techniques aren’t new. They share similarities with those used by Dr. Jim, who has been administering to the homeless since the mid ’80s. The author highlights the importance of personalized, trust-building, and harm reduction methods in successful addiction treatment and expresses hope to conduct research with homeless individuals this winter, using data from Boston Health Care for the Homeless as a possible resource. With respect to our homeless, the take home message is that sleep is imperative to resolving homelessness.