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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Drug Use Behaviors, Fentanyl Exposure, and Harm Reduction Service Support among People Who Use Drugs in Rural Settings

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the opioid overdose crisis in the US. Rural communities have been disproportionately affected by opioid use and people who use drugs in these settings may be acutely vulnerable to pandemic-related ...
Rebecca S. Bolinski   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

MDMA Powder, Pills and Crystal: The persistance of ecstasy and the poverty of policy. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Commonly known as ecstasy, MDMA has been central to the British acid house, rave and dance club scene over the last 20 years. Figures from the annual national British Crime Survey suggest that ecstasy use has declined since 2001. This apparent decline is
Measham, Fiona   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Public support for harm reduction: A population survey of Canadian adults

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
We described public views toward harm reduction among Canadian adults and tested a social exposure model predicting support for these contentious services, drawing on theories in the morality policy, intergroup relations, addiction, and media ...
T. Wild   +13 more
semanticscholar   +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

A step change model analysis of the establishment of pill testing in one Australian jurisdiction

open access: yesHarm 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the role of community pharmacies as a harm reduction environment for anabolic–androgenic steroid consumers: triangulating the perspectives of consumers and pharmacists

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal
While community pharmacies have been successful in providing harm reduction support for illicit substance consumers, little research has explored their role in addressing the needs of anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) consumers.
Timothy M. Piatkowski   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Integrating Harm Reduction into Outpatient Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Settings

open access: yesJournal of general internal medicine, 2021
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is increasingly recognized as a chronic, relapsing brain disease whose treatment should be integrated into primary care settings alongside other chronic conditions.
Jessica L. Taylor   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“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

Effect of strategies to reduce exposure of infants to environmental tobacco smoke in the home : cross sectional survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Objective To examine parents' reported knowledge and use of harm reduction strategies to protect their infants from exposure to tobacco smoke in the home, and the relation between reported use of strategies and urinary cotinine to creatinine ratios ...
Blackburn, Clare   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Problematizing content moderation by social media platforms and its impact on digital harm reduction

open access: yesHarm Reduction Journal
Recent years have marked a shift in selling and buying illicit psychoactive drugs from darknet cryptomarkets to publicly accessible social media and messaging platforms.
André Belchior Gomes, Aysel Sultan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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