First, Do Less Harm: Harm Reduction As a Principle of Law and Policy - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 077664193X ISBN 13: 9780776641935

Casa editrice: Univ of Ottawa Pr, 2025

Riassunto

This text brings together established and emerging scholars (including graduate students) from multiple disciplines (primarily law and social sciences), frontline organizations working in the area of harm reduction, and persons with lived experience of substance use and harm reduction.As a result, the chapters are written from a range of different disciplines, and share best practices from the harm reduction responses to different substances from Canada and elsewhere in the world. Developing a shared understanding of harm reduction, and in turn a deeper appreciation of how harm reduction can be approached in different ways serves to create a stronger foundation for effective policies and laws. The focus of the book is on three substances: opioids, tobacco and cannabis. Harm reduction has been a high-profile element of the legal/policy response to all three, but has manifested in very different ways. For opioids, the “opioid crisis” has highlighted issues such as providing access to safe consumption sites and tools such as naloxone. For cannabis, the legalization and regulation of a formerly illegal product subject to criminal sanction offers a powerful harm reduction case study of the merits and pitfalls of Canada’s pioneering approach.Harm reduction is also at the centre of a key debate in the area of tobacco: how to address new technologies, such as e-cigarettes, that offer smokers a less harmful alternative, but may also create new issues such as how to address health concerns arising from the uptake by young people without discouraging their harm reduction potential.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Vanessa Gruben B.Sc.H (Queen's), LL.B. (Ottawa), LL.M. (Columbia) is Vice Dean (Academic) and Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law and a member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. She also leads the Ottawa Hub for Harm Reduction - a multidisciplinary forum for scholars and community organizations who work on innovative harm reduction strategies. She is also co-editor of the 5th edition of Canada's leading text on health law and policy in Canada, Canadian Health Law and Policy, co-edited with Joanna Erdman and Erin Nelson (LexisNexis, 2017). Professor Gruben teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Health Law and a seminar on Access to Health Care.

Chelsea Cox is part-time Professor in the Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law. She holds both a JD and a Master of Health Administration from Dalhousie University. Cox researches alternative regulatory models and evolving drug policy frameworks. Her main area of focus is on cannabis decriminalization, legalization, and policy development. She also conducts research on harm reduction and public health policy.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Ottawa Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 077664193X
• ISBN 13: 9780776641935
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 264
• Redattore: Gruben Vanessa
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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