The Harm Reduction Gap

This long-awaited book teaches how harm reduction can be a safety net for people with substance use disorders that our current addiction treatment rejects, abandons, and leaves behind.

Autorentext

Sheila P. Vakharia, PhD, MSW, is a nationally recognized harm reduction expert with over 15 years of combined experience in addiction treatment, harm reduction, higher education, research, and drug policy reform. She currently works at the Drug Policy Alliance, a national advocacy organization fighting to end the war on drugs.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. "Just Say No" and the Harm Reduction Gap 2. How the War on Drugs Created the Harm Reduction Gap 3. What Is Harm Reduction? 4. What Are Harm Reduction Tenets and Beliefs? 5. Why Harm Reductionists Embrace the Drug, Set, and Setting Model 6. Treatment and the Harm Reduction Gap 7. What Harm Reduction Is Not 8. Conclusion: Moving Beyond Drug (and Drug User) Exceptionalism