1st Edition
Injecting Substance Use, Recovery and Critical Harms Understanding the Complexities of the Drug Problem
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Hepatitis in injecting drug users
Chapter 3 Human Immunodeficiency Virus – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Chapter 4 Drug related deaths and injecting drug use
Chapter 5 Physical impact of injecting drug use beyond infectious diseases
Chapter 6 Evolution of harm reduction (in its broadest sense)
Chapter 7 Anthrax, Clostridium and other infections
Chapter 8 The cases: people, drugs and viruses
Chapter 9 Treatment including opiate agonist therapy
Chapter 10 International Comparisons
Chapter 11 Social determinants of drug taking: Edinburgh as case study
Chapter 12 Social and environmental impact resulting from injecting drug use
Chapter 13 Political and commercial determinants
Chapter 14 Research and education
Biography
Roy Robertson (James R. Robertson) is Professor of Addiction Medicine at the University of Edinburgh Usher Institute and was a General Practitioner in NW Edinburgh for 40 years. He was a Member of the Home Office, ACMD, for 10 years, Chair of their Shipman Inquiry committee and a member of several Scottish drug advisory committees. He has had a special interest in the politics and harms of HIV/AIDS and injection drug use.
