Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Critical Harm Reduction Policy: From Oppositional Social Movement to Institutionalized Public Health Policy
Chapter 1. Who Needs Naloxone?
Nancy D. Campbell (School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA)
Chapter 2. Low Threshold Methadone Program: 13 Years of Experience in Portugal
Paulo Lopes, Hélder Trigo, Rodrigo Coutinho, Emília Leitão, Nuno Miguel and Jorge Oliveira (Ares do Pinhal – Low threshold methadone program, Lisbon, Portugal, and others)
Chapter 3. Law Enforcement and Public Health: How North Carolina Became a Leader in Harm Reduction Policy Change
Lisa de Saxe Zerden, Corey S. Davis, Tessie Castillo, Robert Childs, and Leilani Attilo (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Social Work, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, and others)
Part Two: Critical Harm Reduction Practice: Autonomy, Ideology, and Evidence-Based Interventions
Chapter 4. Power, Politics and the Production of Harm: A Critical Look at the Intersecting, yet Unequal, Roles of Scientific Evidence, Power, and Politics in the Provision of Harm Reduction Services for People Who Smoke Crack
Lynne Leonard, and Andrée Germain (HIV and HCV Prevention Research Team, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Chapter 5. Rethinking Harm Reduction and Pregnancy: A Study of Women’s Expectations and Experiences of Specialist Maternity Care and Opiate Substitution Treatment
Fiona S. Martin (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Chapter 6. “And The World’s Alright With Me”: Harm Reduction and Survival at Blockorama
Syrus Marcus Ware, Keisha Williams and Nik Redman (Blackness Yes!/Blockorama, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and others)
Chapter 7. What’s Glitter Got to do With It?: Re-Imagining Harm Reduction, Youth Decision-Making, and the Politics of Youth Engagement
Sarah Switzer, Tumaini Lyaruu, Kamilah Apong, Ocean Bell, Lydia Hernandez, Proud Goddess McWhinney, Carver Manual-Smith, Fonna Seidu, Sarah Pariah and Andii Bykes (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and others)
Part Three: Critical Harm Reduction Philosophy: Depoliticization, Direct Action, Drug/Service Users’ Experiential Knowledge
Chapter 8. Everything About Them, Without Them: Sex Work and the Harms of Misrecognition
Laura Winters (Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada)
Chapter 9. Expanding the Mission of Harm Reduction: A Public Health Population and its Members’ Perspectives Towards Health
Kelly Szott (Earlham College, Richmond Indiana, USA)
Chapter 10. Recognition, Exploitation, or Both?: Roundtable on Peer Labour and Harm Reduction
Liam Michaud, Robyn Maynard, Zoë Dodd, Nora Butler Burke (CACTUS Montréal, Canada, and others)
Chapter 11. Harm Reduction Hipsters: Socio-Spatial-Political Displacement and the “Gentrification of Public Health”
Christopher B. R. Smith (Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada)
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
This book is written for:
harm reduction practitioners,
health policymakers,
healthcare providers,
community organizers,
union representatives,
social workers,
researchers in the areas of harm reduction, HIV, Hep C, methadone (OST), naloxone distribution, substance use and addictions, and
people who use drugs.