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Harm Reduction Journal, 2020 Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of the IDEA syringe services program medical student-run free clinic in Miami, Florida. In an effort to continue to serve the community of people who inject drugs and practice compassionate and non ...
Marcus Castillo +10 more
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Expansion of Syringe Service Programs in the United States, 2015–2018
American Journal of Public Health, 2020 Objectives. To report on the expansion of syringe service programs (SSPs) in the United States from 2015 to 2018. Methods. We obtained data from records of the Buyers’ Club of the Dave Purchase Project/North American Syringe Exchange Network (NASEN), including the number of US SSPs and the numbers of sterile syringes purchased by programs.
Don C, Des Jarlais +4 more
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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 +7 more
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Urgent need to expand syringe services programs in South Carolina and beyond
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2022 AbstractOpioid related overdose deaths in the United States claimed over 100,000 thousand lives during the 12-month period ending in April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the previous period. Syringe services programs (SSPs) are an evidence-based harm reduction strategy that have been shown to be effective in reducing opioid overdose deaths and ...
Quang Pham, Marc Burrows, Alain Litwin
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, 2023 Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-saj-10.1177_29767342231210552 for High Interest in Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment With Hydromorphone Among Urban Syringe Service Program Participants by Aaron D.
Czarina Navos Behrends (17710762) +6 more
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Early disruptions to syringe services programs during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionThe widespread HIV epidemic in Ukraine is concentrated among people who inject drugs (PWID), making access to sterile injection paraphernalia (SIP) like sterile needles and syringes a critical method of HIV/AIDS prevention; however, the Russian invasion has threatened to disrupt the operations of syringe services programs (SSPs), creating a
Benjamin M. Nikitin +5 more
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, 2019 Estimated per syringe and per client costs of a comprehensive syringe service program (SSP) by size and geographic location, United States (in 2016 US dollars).
Eyasu H. Teshale (6640655) +9 more
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, 2019 Proportional contribution (percentages) of each cost category to the overall total cost of a comprehensive syringe service program (SSP) by size and geographic location, United States.
Eyasu H. Teshale (6640655) +9 more
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“They’re Just Watching You All the Time”: The Surveillance Web of Prison Needle Exchange
Surveillance & Society, 2023 In 2018, the federal prison authority in Canada began implementing Prison Needle Exchange Programs (PNEPs) at select institutions. Despite longstanding and successful models of prison-based syringe distribution internationally, Canada’s correctional ...
Liam Michaud, Emily van der Meulen
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, 2019 Estimated costs of a comprehensive syringe service program (SSP) by size and geographic location, United States (in $1,000 2016 US dollars).
Eyasu H. Teshale (6640655) +9 more
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