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Syringe Exchange in Germany

Substance Use & Misuse, 1998
Syringe exchange in Germany is clearly linked to a recent shift of local responses to drug-use(r) associated problem. Since the end of the 1980s, metropolitan communities in Northern and Central Germany-concerned by the emergence of "Open Drug Scenes," increasing HIV and mortality rates among drug users, and drug-use-related property crime-began to ...
U, Weber, W, Schneider
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An Innovative Syringe Exchange Program

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2017
Nevada's pilot vending machine program encourages users to enter treatment programs.
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Needle and Syringe Exchange Programs in Amsterdam

Substance Use & Misuse, 2006
Politically, there are various ways to approach problem drug use. Three major orientations are criminalization, medicalization, and harm reduction.
Ewald, Witteveen, Gerard, Schippers
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Marketing Syringe/Needle Exchange Programs

Health Marketing Quarterly, 1999
In an effort to bring the AIDS epidemic under control among the highest risk population of injecting drug users, Syringe/Needle Exchange Programs are being considered, developed and implemented. This paper looks at some of the programs in the United States in various stages of development. Also discussed will be the medical, social and political issues
L J, Coleman, K J, Stenlund
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Syringe Use and Reuse: Effects of Syringe Exchange Programs in Four Cities

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes & Human Retrovirology, 1998
We determined the effect of syringe exchange programs (SEPs) on syringe reuse patterns. Five methods were employed to estimate injections per syringe made by exchange clients in four cities. In San Francisco, Chicago, and Baltimore, self-reported data on the number of injections per syringe were obtained.
R, Heimer, K, Khoshnood, D, Bigg, J, Guydish, B, Junge   +4 more
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Syringe exchange in community pharmacies—The Portuguese experience

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2010
Since 1993 the participation of Portuguese pharmacies to the national Syringe Exchange Programme (SEP) has remained high. However, no national guidelines or standard procedures are available regarding the provision of this service. We aimed to describe practices and attitudes toward syringe dispensing and other harm reduction strategies in Portuguese ...
Torre, C, Lucas, R, Barros, H
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A comparison of syringe prescription and syringe exchange in Rhode Island, USA

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2003
Prior to the year 2000, strict laws regulated the purchase and possession of syringes in Rhode Island, USA. More than 50% of the state’s AIDS cases were related to injection drug use, and injecting drug users (IDUs) in Rhode Island reused each syringe, on average, over 20 times.
Amy E Boutwell, Francis A Wolf, Michelle McKenzie, Stephanie L Sanford-Colby, John P Fulton, Josiah D Rich   +5 more
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Regulating Syringe Exchange Programs: A Cautionary Note

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1994
To the Editor. —Recent estimates of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroconversions in the United States suggest that the plurality of new infections are associated with illicit drug injection. 1 Syringe-exchange programs (SEPs) are a common method for reducing HIV risk behavior among injecting drug users (IDUs) in other countries, but have ...
D C, Des Jarlais, D, Paone, S R, Friedman, N, Peyser, R G, Newman   +4 more
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Effects of Amsterdam Needle and Syringe Exchange

International Journal of the Addictions, 1991
The needle and syringe exchange in Amsterdam was initiated in 1984 by the Junky Union. To date, ample data are available to support the role of the needle exchange in facilitating drug injectors to use drugs in a safer way: no increase in drug use could be validated, participants of the exchange schemes were less involved in needle sharing, the supply ...
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National survey of syringe exchange schemes in England

British Journal of Addiction, 1990
AbstractThis report gives information from an England wide survey of syringe exchange carried out in early 1989. A postal questionnaire was sent to 74 agencies, responses received from 65 (88%), of which 55 were agencies operating syringe exchanges. The development of syringe exchanges has been marked by lack of central coordination, supervision and ...
R, Lart, G V, Stimson
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