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Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,176 ratings — published
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.46 — 331 ratings — published 2022
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.47 — 25,813 ratings — published 2007
Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,960 ratings — published 2021
Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.49 — 22,623 ratings — published 2015
Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.43 — 369 ratings — published
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.22 — 33,241 ratings — published 2015
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,341 ratings — published 2016
Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,886 ratings — published
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,086 ratings — published 2013
Coming to Harm Reduction Kicking & Screaming: Looking for Harm Reduction in a 12-Step World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.26 — 23 ratings — published 2009
Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.62 — 250 ratings — published
Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,211 ratings — published 2003
Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.40 — 975 ratings — published 2025
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.34 — 7,034 ratings — published 2023
First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 3.79 — 576 ratings — published 2024
Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.30 — 59 ratings — published
The Drug Users Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.42 — 120 ratings — published
Drugs & Jesus: Faith Meets Harm Reduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.53 — 154,671 ratings — published 2021
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,929 ratings — published 2016
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,466 ratings — published 2015
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.31 — 16,361 ratings — published 2017
Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,585 ratings — published 2019
Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,442 ratings — published
The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.01 — 678 ratings — published 2016
Critical Approaches to Harm Reduction: Conflict, Institutionalization, (De-)Politicization, and Direct Action (Public Health in the 21st Century)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Raise Shit!: Social Action Saving Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.00 — 28 ratings — published 2010
Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.14 — 155 ratings — published 2003
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,738 ratings — published 2008
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.07 — 47,606 ratings — published 2018
Hollow Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,525 ratings — published 2026
The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.57 — 34 ratings — published
Getting off right - A safety manual for injection drug users (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 1998
Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: Physical and Mental Effects of Psychoactive Drugs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.18 — 436 ratings — published 2014
12 Mis-Steps: How Twelve-Step Programs Trip Up Trauma Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published
In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Things in Nature Merely Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,862 ratings — published 2025
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,366 ratings — published 2020
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,436 ratings — published 2023
Liquid Handcuffs: Policing and Punishment in Methadone Clinics and the Future of Opioid Addiction Treatment (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 3.94 — 27 ratings — published
Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.37 — 243 ratings — published 2026
Up and Down on the Downtown Eastside (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.11 — 36 ratings — published 2011
Drugs are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,215 ratings — published 2005
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,678 ratings — published 2020
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.26 — 42,940 ratings — published 2018
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.21 — 85,808 ratings — published 2022
Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,102 ratings — published
Good Cop, Bad War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,411 ratings — published 2016
Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work & Drug Use (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.25 — 16 ratings — published
“Nobody in a position of real power and influence in government has the courage to say, publicly:
"We made a mistake. Certain drugs which are now illegal can be used by healthy adults with relative safety and no threat of addiction, but you have to know what their effects are and how to use them properly. These include most psychedelics. Other drugs can be used safely by most people, but could be habituating to a few. Those few must have access to good medical care if they get into trouble. Some drugs seem to be either harmful or addicting to most users, and we will de our best to inform you fully regarding their effects and track records, as we now do with prescription drugs. Drug education will be provided across the country and the teachers will no longer be police or politicians, but physicians, chemist and pharmacologist who specialize in this field.”
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"We made a mistake. Certain drugs which are now illegal can be used by healthy adults with relative safety and no threat of addiction, but you have to know what their effects are and how to use them properly. These include most psychedelics. Other drugs can be used safely by most people, but could be habituating to a few. Those few must have access to good medical care if they get into trouble. Some drugs seem to be either harmful or addicting to most users, and we will de our best to inform you fully regarding their effects and track records, as we now do with prescription drugs. Drug education will be provided across the country and the teachers will no longer be police or politicians, but physicians, chemist and pharmacologist who specialize in this field.”
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“think it's doing yourself a lot of good to go out and exercise on these hazy days? think again. you might as well sit down... and smoke a pack of Marlboro cigarettes.”
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