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Shifting the paradigm: physician-authorized, student-led efforts to provide harm reduction services amidst legislative opposition

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2021
Background For over 30 years, syringe services programs (SSPs) have served as an efficacious intervention for the prevention of HIV and Hepatitis C transmission among persons who use drugs.
Timothy P. McMullen, Mahan Naeim, Carol Newark, Haden Oliphant, Jeffrey Suchard, Faried Banimahd   +5 more
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Simultaneous injection‐aspiration technique of air/fluid exchange for in‐office treatment of post‐operative vitreous cavity hemorrhage

International Journal of Retina and Vitreous, 2021
Background Post-operative vitreous cavity hemorrhage following pars plana vitrectomy is common. In-office drainage of the hemorrhage may be an option for some patients. Technique A new method for office-based air fluid exchange is described.
Riley N. Sanders, Sami H. Uwaydat
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Responding to a surge in overdose deaths: perspectives from US syringe services programs

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background US overdose deaths have reached a record high. Syringe services programs (SSPs) play a critical role in addressing this crisis by providing multiple services to people who use drugs (PWUD) that help prevent overdose death.
Madeline C. Frost, Elizabeth J. Austin, Maria A. Corcorran, Elsa S. Briggs, Czarina N. Behrends, Alexa M. Juarez, Noah D. Frank, Elise Healy, Stephanie M. Prohaska, Paul A. LaKosky, Shashi N. Kapadia, David C. Perlman, Bruce R. Schackman, Don C. Des Jarlais, Emily C. Williams, Sara N. Glick   +15 more
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The syringe gap: an assessment of sterile syringe need and acquisition among syringe exchange program participants in New York City

Harm Reduction Journal, 2009
Background Programmatic data from New York City syringe exchange programs suggest that many clients visit the programs infrequently and take few syringes per transaction, while separate survey data from individuals using these programs indicate that ...
Siegler Anne, Paone Denise, Heller Daliah I, Karpati Adam   +3 more
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Protocol for the implementation of a statewide mobile addiction program

Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, 2023
With overdose deaths increasing, improving access to harm reduction and low barrier substance use disorder treatment is more important than ever. The Community Care in Reach R model uses a mobile unit to bring both harm reduction and clinical care for ...
Cynthia A Tschampl, Craig Regis, Nafissa E Johnson, Margot Trotter Davis, Dominic Hodgkin, Mary F Brolin, Elizabeth Do, Constance M Horgan, Traci C Green, Brittni Reilly, MaryKate Duska, Elsie M Taveras   +11 more
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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

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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Assessing syringe exchange programs [PDF]

Addiction, 2004
Anyone who has visited several syringe exchange programs (SEPs) is likely to be convinced that there are meaningful differences among the programs. Syringe exchange programs vary in their staffing, operating characteristics, characteristics of the participants and in their legal, cultural and economic environments [1‐3].
DON C. DES JARLAIS, NAOMI BRAINE
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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
Goldberg, David, Hickman, Matthew, Hutchinson, Sharon, Kimber, Jo, Palmateer, Norah, Rhodes, Tim   +5 more
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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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Impact of Physical Parameters on Dosing Errors due to a Syringe Exchange in Multi-Infusion Therapy

Pharmaceutical Technology in Hospital Pharmacy, 2017
Infusion therapy is challenging and dosing errors may occur due to physical phenomena related to the infusion hardware, despite the use of accurate syringe pumps. These errors typically occur after interventions, such as the exchange of a syringe.
Snijder Roland A., Konings Maurits K., van den Hoogen Agnes, Timmerman Annemoon M.D.E.   +3 more
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