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Indiana Syringe Exchange Program [PDF]

, 2015
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “syringe exchange programs provide free sterile syringes and collect used syringes from injection-drug users to reduce transmission of blood borne pathogens, including human ...
Reynolds, Melissa, Silverman, Ross, Servies, Alyssa   +2 more
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Pharmacists’ role in harm reduction: a survey assessment of Kentucky community pharmacists’ willingness to participate in syringe/needle exchange

Harm Reduction Journal, 2018
Background Pharmacists’ role in harm reduction is expanding in many states, yet there are limited data on pharmacists’ willingness to participate in harm reduction activities.
Amie Goodin, Amanda Fallin-Bennett, Traci Green, Patricia R. Freeman   +3 more
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Assessing the role of syringe dispensing machines and mobile van outlets in reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk groups of injecting drug users (IDUs): a review

Harm Reduction Journal, 2007
Reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk injecting drug users (IDUs) is one of the most important challenges for contemporary needle syringe programs (NSPs).
Islam Md Mofizul, Conigrave Katherine M
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Harm reduction in the USA: the research perspective and an archive to David Purchase

Harm Reduction Journal, 2017
The history of harm reduction in the USA has led to the development of some of the most important methods for treating persons for drug use disorders, such as methadone and buprenorphine for opiate use disorder.
Don C. Des Jarlais
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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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Moving beyond non-engagement on regulated needle-syringe exchange programs in Australian prisons

Harm Reduction Journal, 2009
Background Australia is at a fork in the road with the possibility of a needle-syringe exchange program (NSP) to be introduced at the new prison in the ACT. However, the current situation is characterised by non-engagement from major stakeholders.
Levy Michael, Mogg Daniel
doaj   +1 more source

Comparing harm reduction and overdose response services between community-based and public health department syringe service programmes using a national cross-sectional surveyResearch in context

The Lancet Regional Health. Americas
Summary: Background: Syringe services programmes (SSPs) are an evidence-based strategy to reduce infectious diseases and deliver overdose prevention interventions for people who use drugs.
Bradley R. Ray, Jamie L. Humphrey, Sheila V. Patel, Christopher F. Akiba, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Hansel Tookes, Paul A. LaKosky, Lynn D. Wenger, Alex H. Kral, Barrot H. Lambdin   +9 more
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High HIV incidence among persons who inject drugs in Pakistan: greater risk with needle sharing and injecting frequently among the homeless. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The incidence of HIV among persons who inject drugs (PWIDU) has fallen in many nations, likely due to successes of clean needle/syringe exchange and substance abuse treatment and service programs. However in Pakistan, prevalence rates for PWID have risen
Rab Nawaz Samo, Arshad Altaf, Ajmal Agha, Omrana Pasha, Shafquat Rozi, Ashraf Memon, Saleem Azam, Meridith Blevins, Sten H Vermund, Sharaf Ali Shah   +9 more
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Determinants of Drug Injection Behavior: Economic Factors, HIV Injection Risk and Needle Exchange Programs [PDF]

This study examines the effects of local cocaine and heroin prices, AIDS rates, and needle exchange programs on drug injection and needle sharing by adult male arrestees in 24 large U.S. cities during 1989 1995.
Jeff DeSimone
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Willingness to use a mobile syringe service program among people who inject drugs in rural Appalachia

Harm Reduction Journal
Background Rural people who use drugs face a litany of structural and psychosocial barriers to SSP utilization (e.g., unreliable transportation, stigma).
Alex Elswick, Amanda Fallin-Bennett, Tasfia Jahangir, Susan Westneat, April M. Young   +4 more
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