Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviour

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8297-3
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 939 g

Reihe: Addiction Press

Harm Reduction is a philosophy of public health intended as a progressive alternative to the prohibition of certain potentially dangerous lifestyle choices. Recognising that certain people always have and always will engage in behaviours which carry risks, the aim of harm reduction is to mitigate the potential dangers and health risks associated with those behaviours.

Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviour offers a comprehensive exploration of the policy, practice and evidence base of harm reduction. Starting with a history of harm reduction, the book addresses key ethical and legal issues central to the debates and developments in the field. It discusses the full range of psychoactive substances, behaviours and communities with chapters on injecting, dance drugs, stimulant use, tobacco harm reduction, alcohol use and sex work.

Written by an international team of contributors, this text provides an essential panorama of harm reduction in the 21st century for educators and researchers in addiction and public health, postgraduate students and policy makers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pates, Richard

Riley, Diane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Suchttherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Section I: Background

1 Introduction
Diane Riley and Richard Pates

2 A Brief History of Harm Reduction
Diane Riley, Richard Pates, Geoffrey Monaghan and Patrick O'Hare

3 Drug Education or Drug Propaganda?
Julian Cohen

Section II: Policy

4 Harm Reduction and International Law: Drug Control vs. Human Rights
Richard Elliott

5 A Brief, Personal History of Harm Reduction Advocacy
Dave Burrows

6 Harm Reduction and the Role of Police Services
Geoffrey Monaghan

7 Harm Reduction in Prisons and Other Places of Detention
Ralf Jurgens

8 International Security and the Global War on Drugs: The Tragic Irony of Drug Securitisation
Danny Kushlick

9 The Ethics of Harm Reduction
Adrian Carter, Peter G. Miller and Wayne Hall

10 Harm Reduction: Contribution to a Critical Appraisal from the Perspective of People Who Use Drugs
Eliot Ross Albert

Section III: Specific Interventions

11 Injecting
Richard Pates, Robert Heimer and Danny Morris

12 Recovery and Harm Reduction: Time for a Shared, Development-Oriented, Programmatic Approach?
Neil Hunt

13 Harm Reduction for Stimulants
Diane Riley and Richard Pates

14 Ecstasy and Related Drugs (ERDs) and Harm Reduction
Paul Dillon, Professor Jan Copeland and Edmund Silins

15 Alcohol: Harm Reduction
Tina Alwyn and Bev John

16 Tobacco Harm Reduction
Jonathan Foulds and Steven Branstetter

17 Drugs and Harm Reduction: Cannabis and the Cannabinoids
Stefan Brugger, Laurence J. Reed, James Stone and David J. Nutt

18 The Resurrection of Psychedelic Research
Amanda Fielding

19 Harm Reduction and Sex Workers: A New Zealand Response: Taking the Harm Out of the Law
Catherine Healy, Calum Bennachie and Raewyn Marshall

20 Harm Minimisation: Gambling
Sally Gainsbury and Alex Blaszczynski

21 Young People and Harm Reduction in the UK: A Community Perspective
Mags Maher

22 Making Tools for Harm Reduction: The Story of Exchange Supplies
Jon Derricott

Section IV: Regions

23 Harm Reduction in Central and Eastern Europe
Tomas Zabransky, Jean Paul Grund, Alisher Latypov, David Otiashvili, Raminta Stuikyte, Otilia Scutelniciuc and Pavlo Smyrnov

24 Harm Reduction in Western Europe
Richard Pates

25 Harm Reduction in Russia, South West and Central Asia
Tomas Zabransky, Alisher Latypov, Ivan Varentsov, David Otiashvili and Jean Paul Grund

26 Harm Reduction in South, South East and East Asia
Jimmy Dorabjee

27 History and Context of Harm Reduction in the United States
Lisa Moore and Allan Clear

28 Harm Reduction in Canada: The Many Faces of Regression
Walter Cavalierri and Diane Riley

29 Harm Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean
Diana Rossi

30 Policy and Practice in Harm Reduction in Australasia
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
Bruce Trathen, Charles D.H. Parry and Neo K. Morojele

32 Overview of the Harm Reduction Situation in the Middle East and North Africa
Jallal Toufiq

Section V: Conclusions

33 Conclusions
Richard Pates and Diane Riley

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.