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Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,176 ratings — published
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Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.46 — 331 ratings — published 2022
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.47 — 25,801 ratings — published 2007
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Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,959 ratings — published 2021
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Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.49 — 22,622 ratings — published 2015
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Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.43 — 369 ratings — published
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.22 — 33,237 ratings — published 2015
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,342 ratings — published 2016
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Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,883 ratings — published
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High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,086 ratings — published 2013
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Coming to Harm Reduction Kicking & Screaming: Looking for Harm Reduction in a 12-Step World Coming to Harm Reduction Kicking & Screaming: Looking for Harm Reduction in a 12-Step World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.26 — 23 ratings — published 2009
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Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.62 — 250 ratings — published
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Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,208 ratings — published 2003
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Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.40 — 974 ratings — published 2025
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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 7,032 ratings — published 2023
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First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 3.79 — 576 ratings — published 2024
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Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.30 — 59 ratings — published
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The Drug Users Bible The Drug Users Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.43 — 119 ratings — published
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Drugs & Jesus: Faith Meets Harm Reduction Drugs & Jesus: Faith Meets Harm Reduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.53 — 154,607 ratings — published 2021
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Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,929 ratings — published 2016
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The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,466 ratings — published 2015
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The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.31 — 16,360 ratings — published 2017
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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,585 ratings — published 2019
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Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,442 ratings — published
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The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.01 — 678 ratings — published 2016
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Raise Shit!: Social Action Saving Lives Raise Shit!: Social Action Saving Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.00 — 28 ratings — published 2010
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Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.14 — 155 ratings — published 2003
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Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,736 ratings — published 2008
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.07 — 47,602 ratings — published 2018
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Hollow Bones Hollow Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.44 — 43,094 ratings — published 2026
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The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.57 — 34 ratings — published
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Getting off right - A safety manual for injection drug users Getting off right - A safety manual for injection drug users (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 1998
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Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: Physical and Mental Effects of Psychoactive Drugs Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: Physical and Mental Effects of Psychoactive Drugs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.18 — 436 ratings — published 2014
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12 Mis-Steps: How Twelve-Step Programs Trip Up Trauma Survivors 12 Mis-Steps: How Twelve-Step Programs Trip Up Trauma Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published
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In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
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Things in Nature Merely Grow Things in Nature Merely Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,794 ratings — published 2025
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We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,367 ratings — published 2020
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It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,436 ratings — published 2023
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Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.37 — 243 ratings — published 2026
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Up and Down on the Downtown Eastside Up and Down on the Downtown Eastside (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.11 — 36 ratings — published 2011
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Drugs are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir Drugs are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,215 ratings — published 2005
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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,678 ratings — published 2020
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.26 — 42,935 ratings — published 2018
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.21 — 85,785 ratings — published 2022
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Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,100 ratings — published
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Good Cop, Bad War Good Cop, Bad War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,411 ratings — published 2016
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Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work & Drug Use Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work & Drug Use (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as harm-reduction)
avg rating 4.25 — 16 ratings — published
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“think it's doing yourself a lot of good to go out and exercise on these hazy days? think again. you might as well sit down... and smoke a pack of Marlboro cigarettes.”
― Dane Wigington

Salman Jaberi
“Statistically, GHB is most commonly used by POC and LGBTQ+ groups from low-income backgrounds who cannot afford the limitless amount of ketamine, coke, and alcohol during their nights out. Why not put the energy into educating and providing your community with providing harm reduction guides on how to use it rather than shame and condemn it. The ban approach hasn't worked for the scene in the past decade, if anything it's killing more people, harming more communities and scrutinizing our spaces even more.”
― Salman Jaberi, Rave Scout Cookies Handbook

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