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First, Do Less Harm : Harm Reduction As a Principle of Law and Policy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gruben, Vanessa.
- Series:
- Health and Society Series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa, 2025.
- Summary:
- Gain a deeper understanding of how different approaches to harm reduction can lead to more effective policymaking and legislation. Multidisciplinary insights are converging to transform how society addresses substance-related challenges.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Decriminalizing Simple Possession of all Drugs: Developing Harm Reduction Strategies
- Chapter 2: Protecting Health, Respecting Rights: Decriminalizing Drug Possession as a Constitutional Imperative
- Chapter 3: Long Overdue and Still Deficient: The Correctional Service of Canada's Prison Needle Exchange Program
- Chapter 4: Ontario's Consumption and Treatment Services Model: Problematizing Conservative Safe-Consumption Site Policy
- Chapter 5: Governance of Recreational Cannabis Users in Canada: Jurisdictional Shifts, Punitive Decriminalization, and Challenges for Harm Reduction
- Chapter 6: Criminality and Inequity under Canada's Legalization of Cannabis: A Study of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
- Chapter 7: This Is Your Country on Cannabis: A Review of Legislation, Testing, and Pharmacology of Legal Cannabis in Canada
- Chapter 8: Preventing Perverse Effects of Public Health Policy Is also Harm Reduction: Potential Risks in Some Tobacco-Control Interventions for Indigenous Peoples
- Chapter 9: Regulating Harm Reduction Claims under the Canadian Tobacco and Vaping Products Act and the US Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
- Chapter 10: From First Puffs to Policy: A Non-Apology for 32 Years of Substance Use
- Health and Society
- Backcover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7766-4195-6
- OCLC:
- 1502150825
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