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Implementation determinants of safer smoking supplies in U.S. syringe services programs [PDF]

Implementation Science Communications
Background The prevalence of smoking opioids and other unregulated drugs has increased across the United States (U.S.) since 2000. Improved access to safer smoking supplies may reduce the health consequences of inhalation while helping to engage more ...
William H. Eger, Angel K. Gomez, Kirstin Kielhold, Tyler S. Bartholomew, Angela R. Bazzi   +4 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Promises and pitfalls of safer smoking supply distribution in the United States: a thematic analysis of open-ended survey questions from harm reduction organizations [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background With rising prevalence of smoking unregulated drugs across the United States, there is a need for more community-based distribution of safer smoking supplies (e.g., glass pipes) to reduce health harms for people who smoke drugs.
Kirstin Kielhold, William H. Eger, Angel K. Gomez, Tyler S. Bartholomew, Angela R. Bazzi   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Association of safer smoking supply distribution with participant encounters and naloxone distribution from syringe services programs: Findings from the National Survey of Syringe Services Programs in the United States [PDF]

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: In response to the recent and growing shift from injecting heroin to smoking fentanyl, an increasing number of syringe services programs (SSPs) in the United States are distributing safer smoking supplies.
Esther O. Chung, Sheila V. Patel, Lynn D. Wenger, Jamie L. Humphrey, Amang Sukasih, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Hansel E. Tookes, Don C. Des Jarlais, Sara N. Glick, Paul A. LaKosky, Stephanie Prohaska, Laura Guzman, Alex H. Kral, Barrot H. Lambdin   +13 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Large decrease in syringe distribution following the introduction of fentanyl in King County, Washington [PDF]

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: Syringe services programs (SSPs) serve as key platforms to deliver harm reduction services to people who use drugs (PWUD). Changes in drug supply and drug consumption behaviors, particularly the increasing use of fentanyl through non ...
Sara N. Glick, Joe Tinsley, Laura Pritchard Wirkman, Apoorva Mallya, Peter Cleary, Matthew R. Golden, Thomas Fitzpatrick   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Mobile addiction treatment and harm reduction services as tools to address health inequities: a community case study of the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center mobile unit [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
Opioid overdose deaths continue to increase in the US. Recent data show disproportionately high and increasing overdose death rates among Black, Latine, and Indigenous individuals, and people experiencing homelessness. Medications for opioid use disorder
Allyson Pinkhover, Allyson Pinkhover, Kelly Celata, Trevor Baker, Avik Chatterjee, Avik Chatterjee, Karsten Lunze, Karsten Lunze   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Not all screens are created equal: examination of surface features and other physical properties of commonly used screen materials for smoking drugs

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Brass screens are considered an essential part of the safer drug smoking/inhalation supplies and are widely distributed by harm reduction programs in Canada.
Bradley J. Diak, Miroslav Miskovic, Nadia Zurba, Denise Beaumont   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social network support and harm reduction activities in a peer researcher-led pilot study, British Columbia, Canada

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background People who smoke drugs (PWSD) are at high risk of both infectious disease and overdose. Harm reduction activities organized by their peers in the community can reduce risk by providing education, safer smoking supplies, and facilitate access ...
Sulaf Elkhalifa, Ehsan Jozaghi, Samona Marsh, Erica Thomson, Delilah Gregg, Jane Buxton, Ann Jolly   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

From opiates to methamphetamine: building new harm reduction responses in Jakarta, Indonesia

Harm Reduction Journal, 2019
Background Despite the rise of stimulant use, most harm reduction programs still focus on people who inject opioids, leaving many people who use methamphetamine (PWUM) underserviced.
Rafaela Rigoni, Sara Woods, Joost J. Breeksema   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Harm reduction services and interventions for People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) between 2013-2024: A scoping review protocol. [PDF]

PLoS One
Bórquez I, Bailey K, Laynor G, Toledo L, Bastos FI, Santaella-Tenorio J, Castillo-Carniglia Á, Cerdá M, Krawczyk N.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The utilization and delivery of safer smoking practices and services: a narrative synthesis of the literature. [PDF]

Harm Reduct J, 2023
Tapper A, Ahern C, Graveline-Long Z, Newberger NG, Hughto JMW.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source