Harm reduction: evidence, impacts and challenges

CONTENTS:
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; HCV prevention - a challenge for evidence-based harm reduction; Broadening the scope and impact of harm reduction for HIV prevention, treatment and care among injecting drug users; Translating evidence into action - challenges to scaling up harm reduction in Europe and Central Asia; People who use drugs and their role in harm reduction; Harm reduction - an ‘ethical' perspective; The ambiguity of harm reduction - goal or means, and what constitutes harm?
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).