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Title The Reduction of drug-related harm / edited by P.A. O'Hare ... [and others]
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1992

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Description xvii, 214 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Contents AIDS prevention with injecting drug users in the former West Germany : a user-friendly approach on a municipal level / Heino Stöver and Klaus Schuller -- Representations of drug users : facts, myths and their role in harm reduction strategy / Peter McDermott
The criminalization of pregnant and child-rearing drug users : an example of the American 'Harm Maximization Program' / Loren Siegel -- Clarifying policy options on drug trafficking : harm minimization is distinct from legalization / Nicholas Dorn -- Self-injection education for street level sexworkers / L. Synn Stern -- HIV and drugs : handy hints for women / Sheila Henderson -- Smack in the eye! / Mark Gilman -- A harm reduction educational strategy twoards Ecstasy / Erik Fromberg -- An empirical study of the relationship between heroin addiction, crime and medical treatment / C.S.J. Fazey -- The role of the police in harm reduction / A. Fraser and M. George -- Reaching the unreached : an outreach model for 'on the spot' AIDS prevention among active, out-of-treatment drug addicts / Jean Paul C. Grund ... [et al.] -- The streetcorner agency with shooting room (Fixerstuebli') / Robert B. Haemmig
The reduction of drug-related harm : a conceptual framework for theory, practice and research / Russell Newcombe -- Drugs and criminal justice : a harm reduction perspective / Geoffrey Pearson -- The impact of harm reduction drug policy on AIDS prevention in Amsterdam / Ernst Buning, Giel van Brussel and Gerrit van Santen -- Public health and health behaviour in the prevention of HIV infection / Gerry V. Stimson -- Beyond the prohibition of heroin : the development of a controlled availability policy in Australia / Alex Wodak -- International law : the final solution? / Simon Davies -- US drug policy : public health versus prohibition / Ernest Drucker -- Cocaine users' perceptions of their health status and the risks of drug use / P.G. Erickson, V. Watson and T. Weber -- Police policy in Amsterdam / Leo Zaal
Summary Overview of theories and practices that have developed to minimize the harmful effects of illicit drugs
Analysis AIDS prevention
Australia overseas comparisons
Case studies
Communicable disease control
Drug abuse Control
Drug use and abuse
Risk management
Safety
Statistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Drug abuse -- Complications -- Prevention.
Drug abuse -- Government policy.
Drug abuse -- Social aspects.
Drug abuse.
Political planning.
Social policy.
HIV Infections -- prevention & control.
Public Policy.
Risk-Taking.
Social Problems -- prevention & control.
Substance-Related Disorders -- prevention & control.
Substance-Related Disorders -- therapy.
Substance-Related Disorders -- complications.
Author O'Hare, P. A. (Patrick Anthony), 1947-
LC no. 91015436
ISBN 0415066921
041506693X (paperback)