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Harm reduction among injecting drug users - evidence of effectiveness [PDF]
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
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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
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Online drug user-led harm reduction in Hungary: a review of "Daath" [PDF]
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
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Controlled drinking, harm reduction and their roles in the response to alcohol-related problems [PDF]
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
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Global state of harm reduction 2020. [PDF]
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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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
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What Goes Around: the process of building a community-based harm reduction research project
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
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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
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Participant Input in Harm Reduction Programs [PDF]
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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The belief among many Indigenous Peoples of being over-researched, often through questionable research practices, has generated mistrust towards researchers.
Ashley Goodman +4 more
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