Getting Out of the Ghetto: Harm Reduction, Drug User Health, and the Transformation of Social Policy in New York

This dissertation is a qualitative study of the emergence and evolution of harm reduction drug policies in New York City. It examines harm reduction as a case of the institutionalization of a public health policy movement. Harm reduction seeks to treat the medical and social consequences of drug use...

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1. VerfasserIn: Faulkner-Gurstein, Rachel (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2015
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