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The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-only Addiction Treatment
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.
| Author(s) | By Sheila P. Vakharia. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 200 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 9 Feb 2024 |
| Availability | Not yet available |
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.
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.
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 Alli
