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Caroline Ridout Stewart, LCSW

Caroline Ridout Stewart, LCSW, is a harm-reduction clinician in San Diego, California now working in private practice after twenty years in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, where she was a clinical instructor and supervisor. Stewart has a graduate degree in social anthropology from McGill University and taught anthropology for a decade before becoming a psychotherapist. She has an adopted son who suffers from a complex co-occurring disorder and whose life experience brought Stewart into the field of harm reduction. She has been the president of the board of A New PATH: Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing for twenty years and now specializes in the treatment of patients with opioid use disorders. Stewart is an essayist, artist, and gardener.