Harm Reduction In Substance Use And High-Risk Behaviour

For educators and researchers in addiction and public health, graduate students, law enforcement officers, and policy makers, Pates, a clinical psychologist who works in the addiction field in the UK, and Riley, a policy analyst with the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy and a public health professor at the U. of Toronto, compile 33 essays that explore the policy, practice, and evidence base of harm reduction in substance use and high-risk behavior. Specialists in public health, psychology, addictions, and other disciplines from North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa discuss its history and the role of education in primary prevention; policy, law and policing, and ethics and legalization, with discussion of harm reduction in prisons and other places of detention, international security and the war on drugs, and the views of those who use drugs; harm reduction for individual substances and behaviors, including injecting, stimulants, ecstasy, alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, psychedelics, sex work, and gambling; and harm reduction services in regions around the world. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.