Part 1. Drug policy in a historical context. 1. An overdose in the archive: opioids and harm in South African history / Thembisa Waetjen. Part 2. Dilemmas and opportunities in policy and care. 2. What questions should the national medicines regulatory authority be asking about opioids? / Andy Gray - 3. Balancing harms and the role of the courts in psychoactive substance policy reform: lessons from a cannabis case / Anine Kriegler - 4. Reducing harm for users of heroin in Tshwane: some reflections about health justice, communities and medical care / Jannie Hugo - 5. Re-imagining the problem: substance use in tuberculosis patients in Cape Town / Anna Versfeld. Part 3. Involving research: seeing problems and possibilities in the city. 6. Not as in the news: nyaope users in Johannesburg - 7. The value of trading a harmful drug for a less harmful drug in Durban / Monique Marks and Sibonelo Gumede - 8. Complexities, hopes, possibilities: people who use drugs doing research in Cape Town: reflections on inclusion and methodologies / Anna Versfeld, Eugene Beukes, Cedric Gallant, Andre Beukes, Marlon Cookson, Jeremy Titus, Maseehmo Maree, Rushana Benjamin and Shaun Shelly. Part 4. Perspectives on treatment and harm. 9. The relevance of harm reduction in South Africa: notes from the frontlines of a movement / Shaun Shelly - 10. 'Incompatible knots' in harm reduction: a philosophical analysis / Guy du Plessis - 11. Stigma, harm reduction and addiction treatment in comparative perspective / Claire D. Clark.
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