Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: The Search for Harm Reduction 1
6. PART I: HISTORY, POLICY, AND SOCIAL THEORY
7. 1 The Case of the Two Dutch Drug- Policy Commissions: An Exercise in Harm Reduction, 1968-1976 17
8. 2 Legalization of Drugs: Responsible Action towards Health Promotion and Effective Harm Reduction Strategies 32
9. 3 The Battle for a New Canadian Drug Law: A Legal Basis for Harm Reduction or a New Rhetoric for Prohibition? A Chronology 47
10. 4 The De-Medicalization of Methadone Maintenance 69
11. 5 Readiness for Harm Reduction: Coming to Grips with the ‘Temperance Mentality’ 80
12. 6 Harm Reduction at the Supply Side of the Drug War: The Case of Bolivia 99
13. PART II: HUMAN RIGHTS
14. 7 Harm Reduction, Human Rights, and the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence 119
15. 8 Harm Reduction, Doping, and the Clashing Values of Athletic Sports 131
16. 9 Will Prisons Fail the AIDS Test? 151
17. 10 Is Prenatal Drug Use Child Abuse?: Reporting Practices and Coerced Treatment in California 174
18. PART III: ALCOHOL AND PUBLIC HEALTH
19. 11 Towards a Harm Reduction Approach to Alcohol-Problem Prevention 195
20. 12 Reducing Alcohol-Related Harm: A Balanced and Disaggregated Perspective 203
21. 13 Harm Reduction and Licensed Drinking Settings 213
22. 14 Reducing Alcohol-Related Harm in Communities: A Policy Paradigm 228
23. 15 Harm Reduction and Alcohol Abuse: A Brief Intervention for College-Student Binge Drinking 245
24. PART IV: LABORATORY, CLINICAL, AND FIELD STUDIES
25. 16 Animal Self-Administration of Cocaine: Misinterpretation, Misrepresentation, and Invalid Extrapolation to Humans 265
26. 17 Harm Reduction Interventions with Women Who Are Heavy Drinkers 290
27. 18 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Anti-User Bias in New York State's Approach to Needle Exchange 303
28. 19 Shopping, Baking, and Using: The Manufacture, Use, and Problems Associated with Heroin Made in the Home from Codeine-Based Pharmaceuticals 324
29. 20 'Really Useful Knowledge': The Boundaries, Customs, and Folklore Governing Recreational Drug Use in a Sample of Young People 340
30. PART V: COMMUNITIES AND SPECIAL POPULATIONS
31. 21 Alcohol and Other Drug Use in the Punjabi Community in Peel, Ontario: Experiences in Ethnocultural Harm Reduction 365
32. 22 Female Drug Injectors and Parenting 383
33. 23 The Harm Reduction Model: An Alternative Approach to AIDS Outreach and Prevention for Street Youth in New York City 393
34. 24 Working with Prostitutes: Reducing Risks, Developing Services 410
35. 25 A Harm Reduction Approach to Treating Older Adults: The Clients Speak 429
36. 26 Harm Reduction Efforts inside Canadian Prisons: The Example of Education 453
37. CONTRIBUTORS 473