Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Front Cover; Psychotropic Drugs, Prevention and Harm Reduction; Copyright ; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Prevention in Care Environments: Approaches and Practices ; 1. Scientific Data and Political Decisions in the Field of Addictive Behaviors; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. A particularly complex field for decision makers; 1.3. Heterogeneous decision-making during the last two decades; 1.4. Summary; 2. Social Sciences and Practice Renewal: From Prevention, to Identification, to Early Intervention; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Redefining prevention.

2.3. What organization and what strategy: organizational expertise2.4. Conclusion; 2.5. Bibliography; Part 2: (Re)designing Prevention: Multidisciplinary Outlooks ; 3. The Beautiful Life With or Without Drugs: Questions on Emancipation; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Theoretical framework on dependency and addiction; 3.3. Transgression and emancipation; 3.4. Conclusion; 3.5. Bibliography; 4. Tobacco and Alcoholic Beverage Consumption of European Adolescents: Substitutes or Complements? The Value of an All-encompassing Policy ; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Previous studies; 4.3. Analysis framework.

4.4. Data and descriptive statistics4.5. Price elasticity and cross-price elasticity results; 4.6. Discussion; 4.7. Conclusion; 4.8. Appendix: robustness test; 4.9. Acknowledgements; 4.10. Bibliography; 5. Animated Images, Words Coming Alive, Reflection in Motion; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Why animated images?; 5.3. Practical session; 5.4. What perspectives?; Part 3: Psychotropic Uses and Health Policies: International Perspectives ; 6. Towards the Addiction of Adolescents Under Public Protection: Paradoxical Contextualization; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. The "moral area"; 6.3. Bibliography.

7. Socio-anthropological Contributions to the Senegalese Harm Reduction Program7.1. Introduction: drugs in Africa; 7.2. Subject matter of the presentation; 7.3. Harm reduction origins in Senegal: UDSEN project; 7.4. Drug user profile in Dakar; 7.5. Implication and contribution of social sciences; 7.6. Discussion; 7.7. Bibliography; Part 4: Prevention and Harm Reduction at the User Level ; 8. Promoting Harm Reduction Personal Strategies by Means of Drugs Checking: Its Use in CAARUD; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Drugs checking and harm reduction.

8.3. Subjectivity and objectivity of the consumption experience8.4. Co-production of knowledge for harm reduction; 8.5. Bibliography; 9. Initiation to Injection: A Community Challenge; 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. The first shoot: between apartment and squat ... an experience between friends; 9.3. Methodology; 9.4. Within the injecting community: status among peers; 9.5. From the initiator's point of view; 9.6. Conclusion: what perspectives?; 9.7. Bibliography; List of Authors; Index; Back Cover.

This book promotes the interaction between research and professional practices in the field of prevention and harm reduction. Through the scientific work and experience of human and social sciences researchers and medical social actors, research and action assist one another in illuminating the problems associated with the consumption of psychotropic drugs and in developing intervention strategies. Over the course of several chapters, contributed by attendees of the Psychotropics, Prevention and Harm Reduction Put to the Test By "Human and Social Sciences i A workshop, a range of varied themes are explored within the scope of drugs and their uses. Both the socio-historical context of drug uses and the construction of prevention and harm reduction public policies in light of scientific knowledge are covered, as well as the issue of release, mobilization and/or negotiation of prevention and harm reduction standards, both for professionals and drug users.