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"I Used to be Scared to Even Like Stand Beside Somebody Who Had It": HIV Risk Behaviours and Perceptions among Indigenous People Who Use Drugs

International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2021
Objectives: In Canada, and elsewhere, Indigenous people who use illicit drugs and/or alcohol (WUID/A) experience a disproportionate burden of HIV-related harm. This study examined HIV risk perceptions and behaviours among Indigenous people WUID/A living
Jennifer Lavalley, Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society , Christopher Livingstone, Melissa Steinhauer , Ashley Goodman, Thomas Kerr   +5 more
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Use of low-threshold naloxone boxes for opioid overdose prevention in a Midwestern US State: a public health program evaluation

Harm Reduction Journal
Introduction Despite reductions in overdose deaths reported nationally in 2025, overdose remains a leading cause of death in Michigan and the broader United States.
Pamela S. Lynch, Lou Gamalski, Virginia Roys, Autumn Albers, Katie Burk, Sara Durán, Shelley N. Facente   +6 more
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A step change model analysis of the establishment of pill testing in one Australian jurisdiction

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
This paper applies the theory of change model (Kotter in Harv Bus Rev 2:59–67, 1995; Moore et al. in Viet Nam J Public Health 1(1):66–75, 2013) to describe the pathway that lead to Australia’s first pill testing/drug checking services in Canberra, in the
David Caldicott, Toni Makkai, Malcolm McLeod, Stephanie Tzanetis, Gino Vumbaca   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Come back when you’re infected: pharmacy access to sterile syringes in an Arizona Secret Shopper Study, 2023

Harm Reduction Journal
Background Pharmacies are critical healthcare partners in community efforts to eliminate bloodborne illnesses. Pharmacy sale of sterile syringes is central to this effort.
Danielle M. Russell, Beth E. Meyerson, Arlene N. Mahoney, Irene Garnett, Chris Ferrell, Kylee Newgass, Jon D. Agley, Richard A. Crosby, Keith G. Bentele, Nina Vadiei, David Frank, Linnea B. Linde-Krieger   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Study of human rights violations faced by women who use drugs in Estonia

Harm Reduction Journal, 2018
Background Estonia continues to have the highest prevalence of HIV among people who inject drugs, and the highest overdose mortality, in the European Union.
Arune Kontautaite, Daria Matyushina-Ocheret, Maria Plotko, Mikhail Golichenko, Mart Kalvet, Lena Antonova   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neo-colonialism and financing for the war on drugs: a review of current policy and recommendations for countries in the global north

Harm Reduction Journal
Globally, punitive drug control upholds racist and colonial structures. Marginalised and racialised communities, including Indigenous peoples, are disproportionately targeted and affected by punitive drug policy in law enforcement, judicial and carceral ...
Colleen Daniels, Naomi Burke-Shyne, Catherine Cook, Anoushka Beattie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Expanding access to harm reduction in rural communities through community-informed public health vending machines

Harm Reduction Journal
Background The opioid epidemic continues to disproportionately impact rural communities across the United States, where structural barriers, including geographic isolation, limited public health infrastructure, and heightened stigma, restrict access to ...
Lori Ann Eldridge, Christian Dotson, Lauren Harrell, Marcus Berry, Samantha Bradley, Alicia Brunelli, Jane Casarez, Virginia Fagg, Wendy Odum, Amanda McKenna-Williams, Kathleen L. Egan   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of different types of migration on symptoms of anxiety or depression and experience of violence among people who use or inject drugs in Kachin State, Myanmar

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Evidence on the social determinants of mental health conditions and violence among people who inject or use drugs (PWUD) is limited, particularly in conflict-affected countries.
Khine Wut Yee Kyaw, Lucy Platt, Murdo Bijl, Sujit D. Rathod, Aung Yu Naing, Bayard Roberts   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

C no more: a prospective single-arm study to evaluate the effectiveness of a nurse and peer-led mobile model of hepatitis C testing and treatment at community corrections offices

Health & Justice
Background The community corrections population in Australia shares similar risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection with people incarcerated in prisons, but without access to prison-based testing and treatment.
Samara Griffin, Timothy Papaluca, Jacinta A Holmes, Bridget Reid, Anne Craigie, Jane Dicka, Sione Crawford, Amanda Callus, Mark Belzer, Tim Spelman, Margaret Hellard, Shelley Walker, Mark Stoové, Alexander J Thompson, Rebecca J Winter   +14 more
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‘This is PEEP’ participatory qualitative study: learning from a provincial consultation and advisory group of people with lived and living experience of substance use in British Columbia, Canada

BMJ Open
Objectives To summarise PEEP’s (Professionals for Ethical Engagement of Peers—a group of consultants with lived and living experience of substance use) outputs and gain insights into PEEP’s impact and suggestions for the future.Design Included an ...
Jane A Buxton, Kurt Lock, Charlene Burmeister, Kerolos Daowd, Jessica Lamb, Jenny McDougall, Amirnima Danaei, Paul Choisil, Elizabeth Haywood, Iesha Henderson, Kali Sedgemore   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source