Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviour

Herausgegeben von Pates, Richard; Riley, Diane

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Harm Reduction is a philosophy of public health intended as aprogressive alternative to the prohibition of certain potentiallydangerous lifestyle choices. Recognising that certain people alwayshave and always will engage in behaviours which carry risks, theaim of harm reduction is to mitigate the potential dangers andhealth risks associated with those behaviours.

Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviour offers acomprehensive exploration of the policy, practice and evidence baseof harm reduction. Starting with a history of harm reduction, thebook addresses key ethical and legal issues central to the debatesand developments in the field. It discusses the full range ofpsychoactive substances, behaviours and communities with chapterson injecting, dance drugs, stimulant use, tobacco harm reduction,alcohol use and sex work.

Written by an international team of contributors, this textprovides an essential panorama of harm reduction in the 21stcentury for educators and researchers in addiction and publichealth, postgraduate students and policy makers.

Produktdetails

• Addiction Press
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 939g
• ISBN-13: 9781405182973
• ISBN-10: 1405182970
• Artikelnr.: 35455374

Autorenporträt

Diane Riley is a policy analyst with the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is a founding member of the International Harm Reduction Association and a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Richard Pates is a consultant clinical psychologist and clinical director of the Addiction services for Cardiff and vale NHS Trust. He has worked in the field for nearly 20 years and has extensive experience of treating people with amphetamine problems. His research interests include the treatment of amphetamine problems and aspects of injecting. He is also editor of The Journal of Substance Use.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword ix List of Figures and Tables xi List of Contributors xii Section
I: Background 1 1 Introduction 3 Diane Riley and Richard Pates 2 A Brief
History of Harm Reduction 5 Diane Riley, Richard Pates, Geoffrey Monaghan
and Patrick O'Hare 3 Drug Education or Drug Propaganda? 17 Julian Cohen
Section II: Policy 31 4 Harm Reduction and International Law: Drug Control
vs. Human Rights 33 Richard Elliott 5 A Brief, Personal History of Harm
Reduction Advocacy 49 Dave Burrows 6 Harm Reduction and the Role of Police
Services 59 Geoffrey Monaghan 7 Harm Reduction in Prisons and Other Places
of Detention 77 Ralf Jurgens 8 International Security and the Global War on
Drugs: The Tragic Irony of Drug Securitisation 101 Danny Kushlick 9 The
Ethics of Harm Reduction 111 Adrian Carter, Peter G. Miller and Wayne Hall
10 Harm Reduction: Contribution to a Critical Appraisal from the
Perspective of People Who Use Drugs 124 Eliot Ross Albert Section III:
Specific Interventions 133 11 Injecting 135 Richard Pates, Robert Heimer
and Danny Morris 12 Recovery and Harm Reduction: Time for a Shared,
Development-Oriented, Programmatic Approach? 155 Neil Hunt 13 Harm
Reduction for Stimulants 171 Diane Riley and Richard Pates 14 Ecstasy and
Related Drugs (ERDs) and Harm Reduction 184 Paul Dillon, Professor Jan
Copeland and Edmund Silins 15 Alcohol: Harm Reduction 196 Tina Alwyn and
Bev John 16 Tobacco Harm Reduction 213 Jonathan Foulds and Steven
Branstetter 17 Drugs and Harm Reduction: Cannabis and the Cannabinoids 229
Stefan Brugger, Laurence J. Reed, James Stone and David J. Nutt 18 The
Resurrection of Psychedelic Research 246 Amanda Fielding 19 Harm Reduction
and Sex Workers: A New Zealand Response: Taking the Harm Out of the Law 252
Catherine Healy, Calum Bennachie and Raewyn Marshall 20 Harm Minimisation:
Gambling 263 Sally Gainsbury and Alex Blaszczynski 21 Young People and Harm
Reduction in the UK: A Community Perspective 279 Mags Maher 22 Making Tools
for Harm Reduction: The Story of Exchange Supplies 289 Jon Derricott
Section IV: Regions 299 23 Harm Reduction in Central and Eastern Europe 301
Tomas Zabransky, Jean Paul Grund, Alisher Latypov, David Otiashvili,
Raminta Stuikyte, Otilia Scutelniciuc and Pavlo Smyrnov 24 Harm Reduction
in Western Europe 322 Richard Pates 25 Harm Reduction in Russia, South West
and Central Asia 335 Tomas Zabransky, Alisher Latypov, Ivan Varentsov,
David Otiashvili and Jean Paul Grund 26 Harm Reduction in South, South East
and East Asia 354 Jimmy Dorabjee 27 History and Context of Harm Reduction
in the United States 370 Lisa Moore and Allan Clear 28 Harm Reduction in
Canada: The Many Faces of Regression 382 Walter Cavalierri and Diane Riley
29 Harm Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean 395 Diana Rossi 30
Policy and Practice in Harm Reduction in Australasia 405 Alex Wodak, John
Ryan, Patrick Griffiths, Ingrid van Beek, Monica J. Barratt, Simon Lenton,
Kate Dolan, Ana Rodas, Geoffrey Noller and Michael Farrell 31 Harm
Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa 425 Bruce Trathen, Charles D.H. Parry and
Neo K. Morojele 32 Overview of the Harm Reduction Situation in the Middle
East and North Africa 444 Jallal Toufiq Section V: Conclusions 455 33
Conclusions 457 Richard Pates and Diane Riley Index 461