Psychotropic Drugs, Prevention and Harm Reduction

Imaine Sahed completed her PhD in Sociology from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France in 2016. Her research focuses on psychoactive substance consumption in youth and aims to understand the evolution of drug consumption during adolescence. She is interested in youth health research and promotion. Antony Chaufton is a Clinical Psychologist and works in a health center, with both adults and adolescents who consume and abuse psychoactive substances. His interest concerns practices that are a risk to the physical, psychological and social body.

Part 1. Prevention in Care Environments:Approaches and Practices 1. Scientific Data and Political Decisions in the Field of Addictive Behaviors 2. Social Sciences and Practice Renewal: From Prevention, to Identification. to Early Intervention

Part 2. (Re)designing Prevention: Multidisciplinary Outlooks 3. The Beautiful Life With or Without Drugs: Questions on Emancipation 4. Tobacco and Alcoholic Beverage Consumption of European Adolescents: Substitutes or Complements? The Value of an All-encompassing Policy 5. Animated Images, Words Coming Alive, Reflection in Motion

Part 3. Psychotropic Uses and Health Policies: International Perspectives 6. Towards the Addiction of Adolescents Under Public Protection: Paradoxical Contextualization 7. Socio-anthropological Contributions to the Senegalese Harm Reduction Program

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 9. Initiation to Injection: A Community Challenge