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| TENSIONS BETWEEN SYSTEMS & LIFE WORLDS, STRATEGIC ACTION & COMMUNICATIVE ACTION: |
| When Interventions that "should" work don't work |
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| This presentation uses the case of needle exchange for injection drug users to examine how public health interventions proven effective in one context cannot necessarily be transferred like a technology to another cultural or national setting without consideration of the sociality of drug users and space and place as social products. |
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| Beyond Condoms... |
| Creating a gay men's culture of sexual health |
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| How the community can acknowledge the power and complexity of sexual relations while still reducing the risk of AIDS. |
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Clean, Sober...
and Medicated? |
| From painkillers to medical marijuana, HIV meds can pose a tough challenge for people in recovery. |
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| Medication for pain, addiction, anxiety, and even HIV itself could threaten years of sobriety. |
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| Selected publications by Richard Elovich on substance use, HIV prevention, and drug treatment. |
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| HIV in Central Asia: |
 Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Tajikstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan
Wolfe, D., Elovich, R., Boltaev, A., Pulatov, D. In Press 2007. " HIV in Central Asia: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan." in Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Epidemiology, Prevention and Care, edited by C. Beyrer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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| Harm Reduction in Central Asia: |
 Ailing Public Health Systems Limit Effective Harm Reduction Efforts
Continued failure to build comprehensive public health infrastructures is severely hampering efforts to address growing drug use and HIV/AIDS crises in Central Asia. A look at some of the reasons for this failure and ideas for more effective drug and HIV/AIDS policies in the region.
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| Understanding Substance Users: |
 Effectively Caring for Active Substance Users
For physicians, health care is impeded by a failure to move beyond
evidence of substance use to knowledge of the substance user -- including his or her patterns of use, attendant risk, and functionality.
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Harm Reduction Theory: |
 Users' culture, micro-social indigenous harm reduction, and the self-organization and outside-organizing of users' groups
This paper discusses the user side of harm reduction, focusing to some extent on the early responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in each
of four sets of localities - New York City, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, and sites in Central Asia.
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Who Owns Ecstasy? |
 The Fight Over the Study of MDMA
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| Experts discuss and debate the drug's possible benefits and neurotoxicity at a conference convened by Marsha Rosenbaum, director of the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation. |
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| Starting Drug Treatment 'Where People Are At' |
 Acupuncture and Treatment Readiness
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| Auricular acupuncture, unlike a drug or pill, has a different reality for the drug user and the program. |
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| Keeping It Real: |
 Harm Reduction and Street Involved Youth
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| A low threshold approach to treating drug users that provides a public health alternative to the traditional prohibitive model of drug enforcement. |
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| Self-Empowerment: |
 From Collective Understanding to Action
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| The notion of the self-empowered individual has a rich and discursive history in HIV/AIDS circles within the US and around the world. |
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