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The Washington Needle Depot: fitting healthcare to injection drug users rather than injection drug users to healthcare: moving from a syringe exchange to syringe distribution model [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal, 2010
Needle exchange programs chase political as well as epidemiological dragons, carrying within them both implicit moral and political goals. In the exchange model of syringe distribution, injection drug users (IDUs) must provide used needles in order to ...
Glickman Andrea, Small Dan, Rigter Galen, Walter Thia   +3 more
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Federal funding for needle exchange programs.

Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research, 2010
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has affected millions across the globe. The sharing of needles, for reasons of economy or social relations, has become the most common mode of HIV transmission among injection drug users. Needle exchange programs, which provide many services in addition to the exchange of clean needles for contaminated needles, have proven ...
Peter A, Clark, Matthew, Fadus
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Providing reproductive health services for women who inject drugs: a pilot program

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background Needle syringe programs (NSPs), a proven harm reduction strategy for people who inject drugs, frequently offer limited healthcare services for their clients.
Lauren Owens, Kelly Gilmore, Mishka Terplan, Sarah Prager, Elizabeth Micks   +4 more
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who inject drugs accessing harm reduction services in an rural American state

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background The impact of public health policies during the COVID-19 pandemic on people who inject drugs (PWID) has varied across regions. In other countries, recent research has shown that PWID access to harm reduction services, despite rapid adaptations,
Kinna Thakarar, Michael Kohut, Rebecca Hutchinson, Rebecca Bell, Hannah E. Loeb, Debra Burris, Kathleen M. Fairfield   +6 more
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Cross-country Comparison of Treatment Policies Facing the Drug Abuse in Five Selected Countries [PDF]

Addiction and Health, 2019
Background: Drug abuse is one of the main problems of human's life; thus communities have been thinkingabout the solution of this problem. The present study aimed to compare the general features of drug abusetreatment policies, war on drugs (WOD), and ...
Mohammad Hossein Mehrolhasani, Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Ahmad Hajebi, Saeid Mirzaei   +3 more
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“We're actually more of a likely ally than an unlikely ally”: relationships between syringe services programs and law enforcement

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background Syringe services programs provide sterile injection supplies and a range of health services (e.g., HIV and HEP-C testing, overdose prevention education, provision of naloxone) to a hard-to-reach population, including people who use drugs ...
Carol Y. Franco, Angela E. Lee-Winn, Sara Brandspigel, Musheng L. Alishahi, Ashley Brooks-Russell   +4 more
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Return Rates for Needle Exchange Programs: A Common Criticism Answered

Harm Reduction Journal, 2004
This study searched the available needle exchange program (NEP) literature for return rate data. A total of 26 articles were found. The overall worldwide return rate was 90%, although this ranged from a low of 15% to a high of 112%. U.S. NEP return rates
Ksobiech Kate
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Assessing and improving needle exchange programs: gaps and problems in the literature

Harm Reduction Journal, 2004
Based on an extensive review of the needle exchange program (NEP) literature, the author sought to identify weaknesses in NEP evaluations published to date.
Ksobiech Kate
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Developing and Testing the Populi Needle Exchange Point Finder: An App to Reduce Harm Associated With Intravenous Drug Consumption Among Homeless and Non-homeless Drug Users

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
The spread of viral infections remains a serious public health problem. People who inject drugs represent one of the highest-risk groups. eHealth and mHealth have been shown to be effective in improving individuals' management of their own health and ...
Fran Calvo, Fran Calvo, Xavier Carbonell, Carles Mundet   +3 more
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The rise of injecting drug use in East Africa: a case study from Kenya [PDF]

, 2005
Studies on injecting drug use in East Africa are reviewed. The existingstudies document the spread of heroin injection in Kenya and Tanzania, both countries where HIV rates are high. No data from Uganda on injecting drug use was found by the authors.
Gillian Hundt, Beckerleg Susan, Telfer Maggie, Hundt Gillian, Beckerleg, Susan, Hundt, Gillian Lewando, Maggie Telfer, Susan Beckerleg, Lewando Hundt, Gillian, Telfer , Maggie, Telfer, Maggie   +10 more
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