Harm reduction entails policies, programs and practices aimed at reducing the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people who are unwilling or unable to stop. The focus is on the prevention of harm, rather than on the prevention of drug use itself.
This book tells the story of the opioid crisis, showing us the disease and cure from the authors perspective as an addiction doctor working on the front lines. We meet his patients, hear from other addiction experts, and learn about the science and medicine of opioid addiction and its treatments.
Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic America's opioid epidemic continues to ravage families and communities, despite intense media coverage, federal legislation, criminal prosecutions, and harm reduction efforts to prevent overdose deaths. More than 450,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since the late 1990s.
This volume bridges two different research fields and the current debates within them. On the one hand, the transitional justice literature has been shaken by powerful calls to make the doctrine and practice of justice more transformative.
Articles, commentary and review articles focusing on attitudes and offender counseling, prevention and treatment programs, theory and philosophy for programs with juvenile and adult rehabilitation programs.
Links to the DEA's drug policy information, which includes: information on drug facts, drug scheduling, the controlled substance act of 1970, and Federal drug trafficking penalties.
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