SOC316H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Complex Network, Harm Reduction, Methadone
SOC316
MARCH 12TH lecture
Criticisms of Gated Communities
1. Increased safety are gated communities actually safe? Its usually teens that cause
disorder, especially idle teenagers that are inside and outside of the community. There
may be domestic violence that no one wants to talk about.
2. Demands for preferential treatment see these gated communities that lobby for
rebates from tax – that they already pay for things to be maintained, means that nearby
areas are suffering because of that well organized gated community
3. Produce homogeneity and exclusion these places are generally filled with white
middle class people
4. Transformation of democratic space you’e piatizig a etie ouity ot just
an individual space, gated communities are generally closed off
Harm Reduction
-refers to policies and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of
psychoactive drugs in people who are unwilling or unable to stop
• Harm reduction targets harms from drug use
Who is the drug user under Treatment? seems to be a one size fit all approach
Other frameworks in drug policy debates legalization – calls for the elimination of drug
prohibition and instituting other forms of regulation
Decriminalization the removal of criminal penalties associated with drug offences, namely
possession
Methadone maintenance therapy substitution treatment that involve the provision of
methadone
helps stabilize, withdrawal management, reduces risks associated with injection drug use,
makes people feel uncomfortable
Needle and syringe programs NPS involve the provision of clean needles and injection
related equipment to help reduce the spread of disease like HIV and hepatitis
Safer crack kits distribution of safer inhalation materials to help reduce the spread of
communicable diseases and other harms
Supervised consumption sites facilities where people can consume their previously obtained
drugs without being arrested, where the drug use is supervised by trained staff who can
poide eduatio, suppot, efeals, ad fist aid if eeded. They do’t distribute drugs
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Document Summary
Its usually teens that cause disorder, especially idle teenagers that are inside and outside of the community. Refers to policies and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people who are unwilling or unable to stop: harm reduction targets harms from drug use. Seems to be a one size fit all approach. Other frameworks in drug policy debates legalization calls for the elimination of drug prohibition and instituting other forms of regulation. Decriminalization the removal of criminal penalties associated with drug offences, namely possession. Methadone maintenance therapy substitution treatment that involve the provision of methadone. Helps stabilize, withdrawal management, reduces risks associated with injection drug use, makes people feel uncomfortable. Needle and syringe programs nps involve the provision of clean needles and injection related equipment to help reduce the spread of disease like hiv and hepatitis.
