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Readers will be able to gain a deeper understanding of how different approaches to harm reduction can create a stronger foundation for more effective policies and legislation. Scholars from law and social sciences collaborate with frontline organizations as well as with individuals with lived experience to reflect diverse perspectives, and transform how society addresses substance-related challenges.Each chapter provides unique findings, drawing from examples of harm reduction strategies implemented for opioids, cannabis, and tobacco in Canada and beyond. While harm reduction has been a central aspect of the legal and policy responses to all three substances, its application has varied significantly. First, Do Less Harm explores how the ongoing opioid crisis emphasizes the pressing need for safe consumption sites and life-saving tools like naloxone. Case studies on Canada’s legalization of cannabis highlight both the benefits and challenges of providing legal and regulated access to a drug. The volume further examines the evolving landscape of tobacco regulations where recent innovations such as vaping offer less harmful alternatives, yet raise significant concerns about youth uptake and public health. Designed for policymakers, health professionals, academics, and anyone interested in creating safer communities, this collection not only presents thought-provoking ideas but also provides inspiration to take action.
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Date de parution

25 février 2025

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9780776641959

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English

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7 Mo

FIRST, DO LESS HARM
FIRST, DO LESS HARM
Harm Reduction as a Principle of Law and Policy
Edited by Vanessa Gruben and Chelsea Cox
University o Ottawa Press 
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: First, do less harm : harm reduction as a principle of law and policy / edited by Vanessa Gruben and Chelsea Cox. Names: Gruben, Vanessa, editor. | Cox, Chelsea, editor. Series: Health and society (University of Ottawa Press) Description: Series statement: Health and society | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: Canadiana (print)  | Canadiana (ebook) X | ISBN  (hardcover) | ISBN  (softcover) | ISBN  (PDF) | ISBN  (EPUB) Subjects: LCSH: Drug legalization—Canada. | LCSH: Drug abuse—Canada—Prevention. | LCSH: Drug control—Canada. | LCSH: Harm reduction—Canada. Classification: LCC KE.F  | DDC ./—dc
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The University of Ottawa Press gratefully acknowledges the support extended to its publishing list by the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and by the University of Ottawa.
Table o Contents
List of Figures ......................................................................................... ix List of Tables ........................................................................................... xi Introduction ............................................................................................ xiii
CHAPTER 1 Decriminalizing Simple Possession of all Drugs: Developing Harm Reduction Strategies Line Beauchesne..............................................................................
CHAPTER 2 Protecting Health, Respecting Rights: Decriminalizing Drug Possession as a Constitutional Imperative Martha Jackman.............................................................................
CHAPTER 3 Long Overdue and Still Deïcient: The Correctional Service of Canada’s Prison Needle Exchange Program Sandra Ka Hon Chu and Richard Ellio........................................
CHAPTER 4 Ontario’s Consumption and Treatment Services Model: Problematizing Conservative Safe-Consumption Site Policy Stephanie Arlt.................................................................................
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CHAPTER 5 Governance of Recreational Cannabis Users in Canada: Jurisdictional Shifts, Punitive Decriminalization, and Challenges for Harm Reduction Joao Velloso and Véronique Fortin..................................................
CHAPTER 6 Criminality and Inequity under Canada’s Legalization of Cannabis: A Study of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Stephanie Lake and Margot Young.................................................
CHAPTER  This Is Your Country on Cannabis: A Review of Legislation, Testing, and Pharmacology of Legal Cannabis in Canada Ryan J. P. Pusiak............................................................................
CHAPTER 8 Preventing Perverse Eects of Public Health Policy Is also Harm Reduction: Potential Risks in Some Tobacco-Control Interventions for Indigenous Peoples Marewa Glover................................................................................
CHAPTER 9 Regulating Harm Reduction Claims under the Canadian Tobacco and Vaping Products Act and the US Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Sam F. Halabi..................................................................................
CHAPTER 10 From First Pus to Policy: A Non-Apology for 32 Years of Substance Use Alex Clarke......................................................................................
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Figure 1.1. Percentage increase in demography, prison population and prison population incarcerated for drug oences in nine Latin American countries -......................Figure 5.1and health harms of drug policies ........................ Social  Figure 5.2of law and jurisdictions governing cannabis. Areas in Canada ........................................................................... Figure 5.3layers of norms governing cannabis use. Various in Montreal ......................................................................... Figure 5.4. Various layers of norms governing cannabis use on universities’ campuses in Oawa.............................. Figure 6.1...........................reasons for cannabis use . Self-reported 
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