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Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This chapter synthesises and evaluates the available direct evidence relating to the impact of needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution treatment (OST), drug consumption rooms (DCRs), and peer naloxone distribution (PND) on HIV/hepatitis
Hutchinson, Sharon   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Harm reduction social work with people who use drugs : a qualitative interview study with social workers in harm reduction services in Sweden

open access: yes, 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 ...
Richert, Torkel   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Online drug user-led harm reduction in Hungary: a review of "Daath" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Harm reduction has been increasingly finding its way into public drug policies and healthcare practices worldwide, with successful intervention measures justifiably focussing on the highest-risk groups, such as injecting drug users.
Racz J, Moro L
core   +1 more source

Controlled drinking, harm reduction and their roles in the response to alcohol-related problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This article first distinguishes three meanings of the term ‘harm reduction’ in the literature on alcohol problems: a European sense in which a change in drinking is not necessarily required; an American sense which includes the controlled drinking (CD ...
Heather, Nick
core   +1 more source

Global state of harm reduction 2020. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
he Global State of Harm Reduction is the only report that provides an independent analysis of harm reduction in the world. Now in its the seventh edition, the Global State of Harm Reduction 2020 is the most comprehensive global mapping of harm reduction ...

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Critical appraisal of the European Union Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) Preliminary Opinion on electronic cigarettes

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background In preparation for the 2021 revision of the European Union Tobacco Products Directive, the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) has posted its Preliminary Opinion on Electronic Cigarettes.
Renée O’Leary   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

What Goes Around: the process of building a community-based harm reduction research project

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2017
Background Often, research takes place on underserved populations rather than with underserved populations. This approach can further isolate and stigmatize groups that are already made marginalized. What Goes Around is a community-based research project
Chelsea Jalloh   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

“They don’t go by the law around here”: law enforcement interactions after the legalization of syringe services programs in North Carolina

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background In 2016, the US state of North Carolina (NC) legalized syringe services programs (SSPs), providing limited immunity from misdemeanor syringe possession when law enforcement is presented documentation that syringes were obtained from an SSP ...
Brandon Morrissey   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Participant Input in Harm Reduction Programs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This short document offers an overview of participant input at SSPs and a range of resources for harm reduction programs to consult when building or changing their participant input processes.This project is supported by the Centers for Disease Control ...
University of Washington Supporting Harm Reduction Programs (SHaRP) Team
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“We’ve Been Researched to Death”: Exploring the Research Experiences of Urban Indigenous Peoples in Vancouver, Canada

open access: yesInternational Indigenous Policy Journal, 2018
The belief among many Indigenous Peoples of being over-researched, often through questionable research practices, has generated mistrust towards researchers.
Ashley Goodman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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