Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviour : International Policy and Practice / edited by Richard Pates, Diane Riley.

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 th...

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Other Authors: Pates, Richard (Editor), Riley, Diane M. (Diane Mary), 1953- (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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505 0 |a HARM REDUCTION IN SUBSTANCE USE AND HIGH-RISK BEHAVIOUR: International Policy and Practice; CONTENTS; Foreword; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Section I: Background; 1 Introduction; 2 A Brief History of Harm Reduction; The first few thousand years; Historical understandings of the risks of injecting; The eighteenth-century gin craze; The history of policing and harm reduction; Alternatives to prosecution for offences involving alcohol and other drugs; Drug treatment in police stations; Drug referral schemes; The history of two different systems; The twentieth century. 
505 8 |a Liverpool, United Kingdom the Netherlands; North America; Australia; IHRA, International Harm Reduction Association; References; 3 Drug Education or Drug Propaganda?; Provision of information about drugs; Exploration of attitudes towards drug use; Development of skills relevant to decision-making about drug use; The methods used; Who should lead drug education for groups of young people?; The aims and effectiveness of drug education; Reclaiming the education in drug education; What can be done?; References; Section II: Policy. 
505 8 |a 4 Harm Reduction and International Law: Drug Control vs. Human Rights Introduction; International drug control regime: treaties and bodies; UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs; International Narcotics Control Board; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Flexibility in the international drug control regime; Why is human rights law important to harm reduction?; Harm reduction and the human right to health; Conclusion; References; 5 A Brief, Personal History of Harm Reduction Advocacy; Two decades of advocacy; Advocacy in developing and transitional countries; Country by country, city by city. 
505 8 |a Human rights: the way forward?References; 6 Harm Reduction and the Role of Police Services; The role of police services in supporting harm reduction; Police services and harm reduction: some examples; Alternatives to prosecution for offences involving alcohol, drugs and prostitution; Drug treatment in police stations; Referral from police stations to drug treatment services; Police services' role in multi-agency approaches to drugs and drug related crime; Needle syringe programmes; Drug referral schemes; Preventing drug overdose deaths; Police support for drug consumption rooms; Conclusion. 
505 8 |a Note References; 7 Harm Reduction in Prisons and Other Places of Detention; Two epidemics: HIV and incarceration; The HIV epidemic in prisons; The epidemic of incarceration; Risk behaviours in prisons; Injecting drug use; Consensual and non-consensual sexual activity; Other risk factors; HIV transmission resulting from risk behaviours in prisons; International human rights and the responsibility of prison systems; Responding to HIV and other infections in prisons: a human rights and public health imperative; Needle and syringe programmes (NSPs); Bleach programmes; Opioid substitution therapy and other drug dependence treatment. 
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