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"From "one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere" (Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author)-the untold story of harm reduction, a surprisingly simple idea with enormous power Drug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But we have tried to solve this national crisis with policies that only made matters worse. In the name of "sending the right message," we have maximized the spread of infectious disease, torn families apart, incarcerated millions of mostly Black and Brown people- and utterly failed to either prevent addiction or make effective treatment for it widely available. There is another way, one that is proven to work. However, it runs counter to much of the received wisdom of our criminal and medical industrial complexes. It is called harm reduction. Developed and championed by an outcast group of people who use drugs and by former users and public health geeks, harm reduction offers guidance on how to save lives and improve health. And it provides a way of understanding behavior and culture that has relevance far beyond drugs. In a spellbinding narrative rooted in an urgent call to action, Undoing Drugs tells the story of how a small group of committed people changed the world, illuminating the power of a great idea. It illustrates how hard it can be to take on widely accepted conventional wisdom- and what is necessary to overcome this resistance. It is also about how personal, direct human connection and kindness can inspire profound transformation. Ultimately, Undoing Drugs offers a path forward- revolutionizing not only the treatment of addiction, but also our treatment of behavioral and societal issues"--

The discourse of financialized capitalism tries to create a future predictable enough to manage risk for the wealthy, to shape the future into a profit-making site that constrains and privatizes the sense of what's possible. Here, people's hopes and meaning-making energies are policed through the burden of debt. In Trading Futures Filipe Maia offers a theological reflection on hope and the future, calling for escape routes from the debt economy. Drawing on Marxism, continental philosophy, and Latin American liberation theology, Maia provides a critical portrayal of financialization as a death-dealing mechanism that colonizes the future in its own image. Maia elaborates a Christian eschatology of liberation that offers a subversive mode of imagining future possibilities. He shows how the Christian vocabulary of hope can offer a way to critique the hegemony of financialized capitalism, propelling us in the direction of a just future that financial discourse cannot manage or control

Facing AIDS -- Undoing Powerlessness -- Undoing Addiction -- The Goddess of Harm Reduction -- ACT UP and the Johnny Appleseed of Needles -- The Trial of the Needle Eight -- Exposing Racism in the Drug War -- Housing Works -- The Heiress and the Biker -- Any Positive Change -- Refining Harm Reduction -- Undoing Overdose -- Undoing Treatment -- Come As You Are -- Nothing about Us without Us -- Undoing Tough Love -- Undoing Pain Care -- Undoing Overdose Part II -- Undoing Divisions -- Redoing Organizing -- The American Challenge -- Redoing the Future.

"More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century ideas, addiction as a crime or as brain disease, and in equally outdated treatment. Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality," Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addictions are learning disorders and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention and policy. Like autistic traits, addictive behaviors fall on a spectrum -- and they can be a normal response to an extreme situation. By illustrating what addiction is, and is not, the book illustrates how timing, history, family, peers, culture and chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery- and why there is no "addictive personality" or single treatment that works for all. Combining Maia's personal story with a distillation of more than 25 years of science and research, Unbroken Brain provides a paradigm-shifting approach to thinking about addiction"--

The book is a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to the mathematical modeling and analysis of infectious diseases. It includes model building, fitting to data, local and global analysis techniques. Various types of deterministic dynamical models are considered: ordinary differential equation models, delay-differential equation models, difference equation models, age-structured PDE models and diffusion models. It includes various techniques for the computation of the basic reproduction number as well as approaches to the epidemiological interpretation of the reproduction number. MATLAB code is included to facilitate the data fitting and the simulation with age-structured models

Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface & Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Introduction -- International development -- Development as national project in Tanzania -- Change and continuity in Tanzania's development order -- The organisation of the book -- Notes -- 1: Tanzania: A Development State -- Development states -- Colonial developments -- Development as moral internationalism -- Community development -- Decentralisation as development -- Development as the project of government -- Notes -- 2: Participating in Development: Projects & Agency in Tanzania -- Empowerment through participation -- Local knowledge and collective action -- Development and going backwards in rural Tanzania -- Participation, projects and the politics of progress -- The development of a person by themselves -- Notes -- 3: Globalising Development through Participatory Project Management -- Development and its side-effects -- How anthropologists think 'development' works -- Development planning -- Participatory project management -- Workshopping in Tanzania's development culture -- Project propositions and the practice of management -- Making manageable realities -- Notes -- 4: Making Development Agents: Nationalising Participation in Tanzania -- Boundary objects in international development -- Participation in development -- Participatory forms in Tanzania -- The Participatory Poverty Assessment -- Community action research with civil society organisations -- Opportunities and obstacles to development -- Commonalities -- Simplification through certainty -- Boundary work -- Notes -- 5: Localising Development: Civil Society as Social Capital after Socialism -- Civil society after socialism -- Snapshots of governance in Tanzania 1: government -- Structuring governance -- Local government -- Reforming rural society