A new empiricism for harm reduction

This commentary reflects on the key methodological innovations presented in Nicole Vitellone ’s recent book Social Science of the Syringe (Vitellone, 2017). Vitellone’s book offers a critical account of harm reduction steeped in the material practices of empirical inquiry. In Vitellone’s hands, harm reduction becomes a “matter of care”; a means of thinking, feeling and knowing the life-worlds of people who inject drugs, such that these worlds may be encountered differently. Vitellone couches this analysis in terms of a novel social science of the syringe.

Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - March 26, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Cameron Duff Tags: Commentary Source Type: research