Opioids

Thembisa Waetjen is an associate professor of history at the University of Johannesburg. In 2017, she developed an undergraduate university course entitled ‘Drugs, medicines and addiction in historical perspective’. With Julie Parle and Rebecca Hodes, she has convened a Special Issue on histories of drugs consumption and regulation in southern African contexts for the South African Historical Journal (2019).

Contents
Acknowledgements
Editor’s Introduction
Part One: Drug policy in a historical context
Chapter 1- An overdose in the archive: Opioids and harm in South African history
Part Two: Dilemmas and opportunities in policy and care
Chapter 2- What questions should the national medicines regulatory authority be asking about opioids?
Chapter 3- Balancing harms and the role of the courts in psychoactive substance policy reform: lessons from a cannabis case?
Chapter 4- Reducing harm for users of heroin in Tshwane: Some reflections about health justice, communities and medical care
Chapter 5- Reimagining the problem: substance use in tuberculosis patients in Cape Town
Part Three: Involving research: Seeing problems and possibilities in the city
Chapter 6- Not really like you see in the news: nyaope users’ lives in Johannesburg
Chapter 7- The value of trading a harmful drug for a less harmful drug in Durban
Chapter 8- Complexities, hopes, possibilities - People who use drugs doing research in Cape Town: reflections on inclusion and methodologies
Part Four: Perspectives on Treatment and Harm
Chapter 9- The relevance of harm reduction in South Africa: notes from the frontlines of a movement
Chapter 10- Incompatible knots in harm reduction: a philosophical analysis
Chapter 11- Stigma, treatment, and harm reduction in comparative perspective
About the contributors
Index