Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviour

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