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Harm Reduction Journal, 2023 Background Social work with people who use drugs (PWUD) has traditionally focused on abstinence and rehabilitation. In recent years, harm reduction has gained an increasingly more important role in social work with PWUD, and social workers are key ...
Torkel Richert +2 more
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Women who use drugs: engagement in practices of harm reduction care
Harm Reduction Journal, 2023 Background Harm reduction services that employ or are operated by people who use drugs are an effective means of mitigating overdose risks and other drug-related harms.
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Perspectives of U.S. harm reduction advocates on persuasive message strategies
Harm Reduction Journal, 2023 Background The messages used to communicate about harm reduction are critical in garnering public support for adoption of harm reduction interventions. Despite the demonstrated effectiveness of harm reduction interventions at reducing overdose deaths and
Sarah A. White +4 more
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Meeting people where they are: implementing hospital-based substance use harm reduction
Harm Reduction Journal, 2022 Background Hospital-based addiction care focuses on assessing and diagnosing substance use disorders, managing withdrawal, and initiating medications for addiction treatment. Hospital harm reduction is generally limited to prescribing naloxone. Hospitals
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The Olympics and harm reduction? [PDF]
Harm Reduction Journal, 2012 The current anti-doping policy ('war on doping') resembles the 'war on drugs' in several aspects, including a zero-tolerance approach, ideology encroaching on human rights and public health principles, high cost using public money for repression and control, and attempts to shape internationally harmonized legal frameworks to attain its aim ...
Kayser, Bengt E., Broers, Barbara
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Annals medicus, 2022 Adolescence is a developmental stage defined in part by risk-taking. Risk-taking is critical to normal development and has important benefits including trying new activities and exploring new relationships.
James Michael Winer +3 more
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Understanding Racial Inequities in the Implementation of Harm Reduction Initiatives.
American Journal of Public Health, 2022 Objectives. To elucidate a structurally oriented theoretical framework that considers legacies of racism, trauma, and social exclusion and to interrogate the "unmet obligations" of the institutionalization of the harm reduction infrastructure to provide ...
Andrea M López +6 more
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2022 Background Fatal drug overdoses in the USA hit historical records during the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the pandemic, people who used drugs had greater odds of contracting COVID-19, increased drug use due to COVID-related stress, and heightened levels
Fiona N. Conway +5 more
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Harm reduction in hospitals [PDF]
Harm Reduction Journal, 2017 Despite the high rates of hospitalization among people who use drugs (PWUD), harm reduction interventions have not been widely adopted in inpatient settings. We list several harm reduction practices that we believe should be considered in hospitals. Interventions to decrease stigma, including guidance regarding language and partnering with people with ...
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Harm Reduction Journal, 2022 Background Community-based harm reduction programs reduce morbidity and mortality associated with drug use. While hospital-based inpatient addiction consult services can also improve outcomes for patients using drugs, inpatient clinical care is often ...
Ghulam Karim Khan +6 more
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