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Harm Reduction Journal [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal, 2004
Ernest Drucker
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Expanding access to harm reduction in rural communities through community-informed public health vending machines [PDF]

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
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Harm reduction

Journal of Food and Drug Analysis, 2013
The "Harm Reduction" session was chaired by Dr. Jacques Normand, Director of the AIDS Research Program of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse. The three presenters (and their presentation topics) were: Dr. Don Des Jarlais (High Coverage Needle/Syringe Programs for People Who Inject Drugs in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review ...
Normand, Jacques, Li, Jih-Heng, Thomson, Nicholas, Jarlais, Don Des   +3 more
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Harm reduction must be recognised an essential public health intervention during crises

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
The COVID-19 had a substantial impact on the provision of harm reduction services for people who use drugs globally. These front-line public health interventions serve a population that due to stigma, discrimination and criminalisation, faces barriers to
Robert Csák, Sam Shirley-Beavan, Arielle Edelman McHenry, Colleen Daniels, Naomi Burke-Shyne   +4 more
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Hidden populations: risk behaviours in drug-using populations in the Republic of Georgia through subsequent peer-driven interventions

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background Georgia has a significant risk of ongoing HIV and HCV outbreak. Within this context, harm reduction aims to reduce risk associated with drug use through community activities, such as peer recruitment and involvement.
Cale Lawlor, Marine Gogia, Irma Kirtadze, Keti Stvilia, Guranda Jikia, Tamar Zurashvili   +5 more
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Awareness, predictors and outcomes of drug alerts among people who access harm reduction services in British Columbia, Canada: findings from a 2021 cross-sectional survey

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives To assess the awareness and predictors of seeing/hearing a drug alert in British Columbia (BC) and subsequent drug use behaviour after seeing/hearing an alert.Methods This study analysed the 2021 BC harm reduction client survey (HRCS)—a cross ...
Jane A Buxton, Kurt Lock, Brittany Graham, Kerolos Daowd, Max Ferguson, Lisa Liu, Jackson Loyal, Jessica Lamb, Jenny McDougall   +8 more
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Decolonizing harm reduction [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
AbstractIn this essay, I show that notwithstanding the undeniable colonial origins of punitive drug policies around the world, such policies have figured in nationalist projects and populist platforms in various postcolonial states, and today they are viewed as local responses to the ‘drug problem.’ Instead, it is harm reduction and other efforts to ...
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Women and barriers to harm reduction services: a literature review and initial findings from a qualitative study in Barcelona, Spain

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background There are an estimated 3.2 million women who inject drugs worldwide, constituting 20% of all people who inject drugs. The limited data that are available suggest that women who inject drugs are at greater risk of HIV and viral hepatitis ...
Sam Shirley-Beavan, Aura Roig, Naomi Burke-Shyne, Colleen Daniels, Robert Csak   +4 more
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Harm reduction in Europe: a framework for civil society-led monitoring

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background Civil society organisations (CSOs) play a vital role in developing and implementing effective measures to reduce the harms of drug use. They are also fundamental actors to monitor and evaluate programmes and policies for improvement.
Rafaela Rigoni, Tuukka Tammi, Daan van der Gouwe, Eberhard Schatz   +3 more
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Addressing injecting drug use in Asia and Eastern Europe. [PDF]

, 2013
While the global HIV incidence dropped about 20% in the past 10 years, HIV incidences among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Asia and Europe continue to increase and to account for high proportions of new HIV infections among PWID globally.
Detels, Roger, Shi, Cynthia X, Wu, Zunyou   +2 more
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