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

, 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
Rhodes, T., Kerr, Thomas, Palmateer, N., Goldberg, David J., Hedrich, Dagmar, Palmateer, Norah, Fry, Craig L, Goldberg, David, Palmateer, Norah; id_orcid, Rhodes, Tim, Goldberg, D.J., Stöver, H., Hickman, Matthew, Hutchinson, Sharon, Hall, Wayne, Hickman, M., Brentari, C., Kimber, J., Kimber, Jo, Fischer, Benedikt, Hutchinson, S.J., Stevens, Alex, Dubois-Arber, Françoise, Hutchinson, Sharon J.; id_orcid   +23 more
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“That’s Not Rehabilitation, That’s Enabling”: Correctional Officer Perspectives on the Prison Needle Exchange Program

Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2023
Correctional Service Canada implemented Prison Needle Exchange Programs (PNEPs) into federal penitentiaries in 2018 as a harm reduction measure to prevent needle sharing, drug overdose, and limit the spread of infectious disease.
Matthew S. Johnston, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Cindy Whitten   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Community Care in Reach: Mobilizing Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment Services for Vulnerable Populations

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Opioid overdoses killed 47,600 people in the United States in 2017. Despite increasing availability of office-based addiction treatment programs, the prevalence of opioid overdose is historically high and disproportionately affects vulnerable populations,
Craig Regis, Jessie M. Gaeta, Sarah Mackin, Travis P. Baggett, Travis P. Baggett, Joan Quinlan, Elsie M. Taveras, Elsie M. Taveras   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Racial disparities in use of syringe service programs in King County, WA: a comparison of two cross-sectional surveys

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Syringe service programs (SSPs) provide tools to people who inject drugs (PWID) to prevent overdose, reduce the risk of HIV and HCV infection, and reduce injection frequency.
Katheryn Salow, Helen E. Jack, Joe Tinsley, Caleb J. Banta-Green, Susan Kingston, Matthew Iles-Shih, Judith I. Tsui, Sara Glick   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Qualitative case study of needle exchange programs in the Central Appalachian region of the United States. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:The Central Appalachian region of the United States is in the midst of a hepatitis C virus epidemic driven by injection of opioids, particularly heroin, with contaminated syringes. In response to this epidemic, several needle exchange programs
Stephen M Davis, Danielle Davidov, Alfgeir L Kristjansson, Keith Zullig, Adam Baus, Melanie Fisher   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

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
doaj   +1 more source

Higher methadone dose reduces risky drug injecting behaviours among methadone clients in Myanmar

Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health, 2021
Background: HIV prevalence rate among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) in Myanmar is marginally high (34.9%). HIV transmission can be reduced and prevented through harm reduction programs such as methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and needle syringe ...
Sun Tun, B. Vicknasingam, Darshan Singh
doaj   +1 more source

Barriers to using new needles encountered by rural Appalachian people who inject drugs: implications for needle exchange

Harm Reduction Journal, 2019
Background Using a new needle for every injection can reduce the spread of infectious disease among people who inject drugs (PWID). No previous study has examined new needle use barriers among PWIDs residing in the rural Appalachian part of the United ...
Stephen M. Davis, Alfgeir L. Kristjansson, Danielle Davidov, Keith Zullig, Adam Baus, Melanie Fisher   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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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A comprehensive system of pharmaceutical care for drug misusers

Harm Reduction Journal, 2004
This article outlines the evolution of a community pharmacy-based supervised consumption of methadone program in Grater Glasgow. The formalization of this program in 1994 promoted full patient compliance with the methadone regimen and reduced seepage of ...
Roberts Kay, Hunter Carole
doaj   +1 more source