Harm Reduction: A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs

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Harm Reduction

A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs

Edited by: Patricia Erickson , Diane Riley , Yuet Cheung and Pat O'Hare

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1997

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This edited collection provides the latest in research and critical thinking on public health alternatives to conventional criminal approaches aimed at limiting the harms of both legal and illegal drugs for users and society.

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Erickson Patricia :

Patricia G. Erickson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist with the Addiction Research Foundation.

Riley Diane :

Diane M. Riley is Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science at the University of Toronto and Policy Analyst at the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy.

Cheung Yuet :

Yuet W. Cheung is Professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

O'Hare Pat :

Patrick A. O’Hare is Executive Director of the International Harm Reduction Association.

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Contents
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: The Search for Harm Reduction
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PART I: HISTORY, POLICY, AND SOCIAL THEORY
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1 The Case of the Two Dutch Drug- Policy Commissions: An Exercise in Harm Reduction, 1968-1976
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Peter D.A. Cohen

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2 Legalization of Drugs: Responsible Action towards Health Promotion and Effective Harm Reduction Strategies
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Line Beauchesne

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3 The Battle for a New Canadian Drug Law: A Legal Basis for Harm Reduction or a New Rhetoric for Prohibition? A Chronology
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Benedikt Fischer

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4 The De-Medicalization of Methadone Maintenance
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Marsha Rosenbaum

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5 Readiness for Harm Reduction: Coming to Grips with the ‘Temperance Mentality’
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Bruce K. Alexander and Covert F. Van De Wijngaart

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6 Harm Reduction at the Supply Side of the Drug War: The Case of Bolivia
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Fernando García Argañarás

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PART II: HUMAN RIGHTS
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7 Harm Reduction, Human Rights, and the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence
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Robin Room

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8 Harm Reduction, Doping, and the Clashing Values of Athletic Sports
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Trudo Lemmens

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9 Will Prisons Fail the AIDS Test?
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Ralf Jürgens

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10 Is Prenatal Drug Use Child Abuse?: Reporting Practices and Coerced Treatment in California
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Amanda Noble

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PART III: ALCOHOL AND PUBLIC HEALTH
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11 Towards a Harm Reduction Approach to Alcohol-Problem Prevention
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Eric Single

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12 Reducing Alcohol-Related Harm: A Balanced and Disaggregated Perspective
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Martin Plant

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13 Harm Reduction and Licensed Drinking Settings
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Tim Stockwell

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14 Reducing Alcohol-Related Harm in Communities: A Policy Paradigm
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Claire Narbonne-Fortin, René Lauzon and Ronald R. Douglas

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15 Harm Reduction and Alcohol Abuse: A Brief Intervention for College-Student Binge Drinking
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G. Alan Marlatt and John S. Baer

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PART IV: LABORATORY, CLINICAL, AND FIELD STUDIES
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16 Animal Self-Administration of Cocaine: Misinterpretation, Misrepresentation, and Invalid Extrapolation to Humans
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John P. Morgan and Lynn Zimmer

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17 Harm Reduction Interventions with Women Who Are Heavy Drinkers
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Gerard J. Connors and Kimberly S. Walitzer

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18 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Anti-User Bias in New York State's Approach to Needle Exchange
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Rod Sorge and Ruth E. Harlow

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19 Shopping, Baking, and Using: The Manufacture, Use, and Problems Associated with Heroin Made in the Home from Codeine-Based Pharmaceuticals
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Julia Reynolds, Simon Lenton, Mike Charlton and Jane Caporn

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20 'Really Useful Knowledge': The Boundaries, Customs, and Folklore Governing Recreational Drug Use in a Sample of Young People
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Laura Gamble and Michael George

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PART V: COMMUNITIES AND SPECIAL POPULATIONS
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21 Alcohol and Other Drug Use in the Punjabi Community in Peel, Ontario: Experiences in Ethnocultural Harm Reduction
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Yuet W. Cheung, Timothy R. Weber and Purvi Biring

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22 Female Drug Injectors and Parenting
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Avril Taylor

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23 The Harm Reduction Model: An Alternative Approach to AIDS Outreach and Prevention for Street Youth in New York City
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Michael C. Clatts, Edith Springer, W. Rees Davis, Glenn Backes, Christopher Linwood, Marie Bresnahan and Stacey Rubin

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24 Working with Prostitutes: Reducing Risks, Developing Services
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Sarah Crosby

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25 A Harm Reduction Approach to Treating Older Adults: The Clients Speak
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Kathryn Graham, Pamela J. Brett and Jane Baron

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26 Harm Reduction Efforts inside Canadian Prisons: The Example of Education
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Andrea Riesch Toepell

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Harm Reduction

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Search for Harm Reduction

1 The Case of the Two Dutch Drug- Policy Commissions: An Exercise in Harm Reduction, 1968-1976

2 Legalization of Drugs: Responsible Action towards Health Promotion and Effective Harm Reduction Strategies

3 The Battle for a New Canadian Drug Law: A Legal Basis for Harm Reduction or a New Rhetoric for Prohibition? A Chronology

4 The De-Medicalization of Methadone Maintenance

5 Readiness for Harm Reduction: Coming to Grips with the ‘Temperance Mentality’

6 Harm Reduction at the Supply Side of the Drug War: The Case of Bolivia

7 Harm Reduction, Human Rights, and the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence

8 Harm Reduction, Doping, and the Clashing Values of Athletic Sports

9 Will Prisons Fail the AIDS Test?

10 Is Prenatal Drug Use Child Abuse?: Reporting Practices and Coerced Treatment in California

11 Towards a Harm Reduction Approach to Alcohol-Problem Prevention

12 Reducing Alcohol-Related Harm: A Balanced and Disaggregated Perspective

13 Harm Reduction and Licensed Drinking Settings

14 Reducing Alcohol-Related Harm in Communities: A Policy Paradigm

15 Harm Reduction and Alcohol Abuse: A Brief Intervention for College-Student Binge Drinking

16 Animal Self-Administration of Cocaine: Misinterpretation, Misrepresentation, and Invalid Extrapolation to Humans

17 Harm Reduction Interventions with Women Who Are Heavy Drinkers

18 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Anti-User Bias in New York State's Approach to Needle Exchange

19 Shopping, Baking, and Using: The Manufacture, Use, and Problems Associated with Heroin Made in the Home from Codeine-Based Pharmaceuticals

20 'Really Useful Knowledge': The Boundaries, Customs, and Folklore Governing Recreational Drug Use in a Sample of Young People

21 Alcohol and Other Drug Use in the Punjabi Community in Peel, Ontario: Experiences in Ethnocultural Harm Reduction

22 Female Drug Injectors and Parenting

23 The Harm Reduction Model: An Alternative Approach to AIDS Outreach and Prevention for Street Youth in New York City

24 Working with Prostitutes: Reducing Risks, Developing Services

25 A Harm Reduction Approach to Treating Older Adults: The Clients Speak

26 Harm Reduction Efforts inside Canadian Prisons: The Example of Education

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