Harm reduction: evidence, impacts and challenges

Please find below a detailed table of contents with downloadable PDFs per chapter.

Introduction

• Chapter 1: Harm reduction and the mainstream Tim Rhodes and Dagmar Hedrich

Part I: Background

• Chapter 2: The diffusion of harm reduction in Europe and beyond Catherine Cook, Jamie Bridge and Gerry V. Stimson
• Chapter 3: The development of European drug policy and the place of harm reduction within this Susanne MacGregor and Marcus Whiting
• Chapter 4: Perspectives on harm reduction — what experts have to say
  • Harm reduction in an open and experimenting society Jürgen Rehm and Benedikt Fischer
  • HCV prevention — a challenge for evidence-based harm reduction Matthew Hickman
  • Broadening the scope and impact of harm reduction for HIV prevention, treatment and care among injecting drug users Andrew Ball
  • Translating evidence into action — challenges to scaling up harm reduction in Europe and Central Asia Rifat Atun and Michel Kazatchkine
  • People who use drugs and their role in harm reduction Mat Southwell
  • Harm reduction — an ‘ethical’ perspective Craig Fry
  • The ambiguity of harm reduction — goal or means, and what constitutes harm? Robin Room

Part II: Evidence and impacts

• Chapter 5: Harm reduction among injecting drug users — evidence of effectiveness Jo Kimber, Norah Palmateer, Sharon Hutchinson, Matthew Hickman, David Goldberg and Tim Rhodes
• Chapter 6: The effect of epidemiological setting on the impact of harm reduction targeting injecting drug users Peter Vickerman and Matthew Hickman
• Chapter 7: The fast and furious — cocaine, amphetamines and harm reduction Jean-Paul Grund, Philip Coffin, Marie Jauffret-Roustide, Minke Dijkstra, Dick de Bruin and Peter Blanken
• Chapter 8: Harm reduction policies for cannabis Wayne Hall and Benedikt Fischer
• Chapter 9: Harm reduction policies for tobacco Coral Gartner, Wayne Hall and Ann McNeill
• Chapter 10: Alcohol harm reduction in Europe Rachel Herring, Betsy Thom, Franca Beccaria, Torsten Kolind and Jacek Moskalewicz

Part III: Challenges and innovations

• Chapter 11: Drug consumption facilities in Europe and beyond Dagmar Hedrich, Thomas Kerr and Françoise Dubois-Arber
• Chapter 12: User involvement and user organising in harm reduction Neil Hunt, Eliot Albert and Virginia Montañés Sánchez
• Chapter 13: Young people, recreational drug use and harm reduction Adam Fletcher, Amador Calafat, Alessandro Pirona and Deborah Olszewski
• Chapter 14: Criminal justice approaches to harm reduction in Europe Alex Stevens, Heino Stöver and Cinzia Brentari
• Chapter 15: Variations in problem drug use patterns and their implications for harm reduction Richard Hartnoll, Anna Gyarmathy and Tomas Zabransky

Conclusions

• Chapter 16: Current and future perspectives on harm reduction in the European Union Marina Davoli, Roland Simon and Paul Griffiths