Pates / Riley Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviour

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-34335-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 488 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Addiction Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pates, Richard

Riley, Diane

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 PatrickO'Hare
3 Drug Education or Drug Propaganda? 17
Julian Cohen
Section II: Policy 31
4 Harm Reduction and International Law: Drug Control vs. HumanRights 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 Detention77
Ralf Jurgens
8 International Security and the Global War on Drugs: The TragicIrony 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 thePerspective 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 Cannabinoids229
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 CommunityPerspective 279
Mags Maher
22 Making Tools for Harm Reduction: The Story of ExchangeSupplies 289
Jon Derricott
Section IV: Regions 299
23 Harm Reduction in Central and Eastern Europe 301
Tomas Zabransky, Jean Paul Grund, Alisher Latypov, DavidOtiashvili, Raminta Stuikyte, Otilia Scutelniciuc and PavloSmyrnov
24 Harm Reduction in Western Europe 322
Richard Pates
25 Harm Reduction in Russia, South West and Central Asia335
Tomas Zabransky, Alisher Latypov, Ivan Varentsov, David Otiashviliand 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 States370
Lisa Moore and Allan Clear
28 Harm Reduction in Canada: The Many Faces of Regression382
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 Australasia405
Alex Wodak, John Ryan, Patrick Griffiths, Ingrid van Beek,Monica J. Barratt, Simon Lenton, Kate Dolan, Ana Rodas, GeoffreyNoller 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 Eastand North Africa 444
Jallal Toufiq
Section V: Conclusions 455
33 Conclusions 457
Richard Pates and Diane Riley
Index 461

Über Autor(innen)

Diane Riley is a policy analyst with the Canadian Foundationfor Drug Policy and Assistant Professor of Medicine at theUniversity of Toronto. She is a founding member of theInternational Harm Reduction Association and a member of the Boardof Directors of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Richard Pates is a consultant clinical psychologist andclinical director of the Addiction services for Cardiff and valeNHS Trust. He has worked in the field for nearly 20 years and hasextensive experience of treating people with amphetamine problems.His research interests include the treatment of amphetamineproblems and aspects of injecting. He is also editor of The Journalof Substance Use.