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Getting to the Point: A Community-Designed, Low-Barrier Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment Program for People Who Inject Drugs in Rural America

Viruses
Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) have a higher risk of contracting hepatitis C (HCV) than the general population, but these individuals are often poorly served by traditional healthcare systems.
Amanda N. Perry, Elizabeth Eccles, Shoshana H. Bardach, Alastair Huntley, Ryan Fowler, David de Gijsel   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drug checking services: barriers and facilitators to implementation by U.S. syringe services programs

Harm Reduction Journal
Syringe services programs (SSPs) provide evidence-based services to prevent the spread of disease and reduce overdose mortality among people who use drugs. To address unacceptably high levels of overdose, some SSPs have implemented advanced drug checking services (DCS) to identify illicitly manufactured fentanyl, xylazine, and other unexpected ...
Smith, Jessica, Philbrick, Sarah Margaret, Akiba, Christopher F., Wenger, Lynn D., Hairgrove, Sara, Kral, Alex H., Lambdin, Barrot H., Patel, Sheila V.   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

S1-S3 Figs.

, 2022
Figures showing estimates for proportions of PWID reporting sharing of ancillary injection equipment (S1 Fig), syringe-mediated drug sharing (S2 Fig), and obtaining syringes from a syringe service program (S3 Fig). (PDF)
Jonathan Ozik (10968407), Bryan Brickman (11938629), Basmattee Boodram (785945), Aditya Khanna (11938626), Harel Dahari (390003), Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti (4419808)   +5 more
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Awareness, perception and utilization of a mobile health clinic by people who use drugs

Annals of Medicine, 2022
Introduction People who use drugs (PWUD) face a multitude of barriers to accessing healthcare and other services. Mobile health clinics (MHC) are an innovative, cost-effective health care delivery approach that increases healthcare access to vulnerable ...
Suzanne M. Grieb, Robert Harris, Amanda Rosecrans, Katie Zook, Susan G. Sherman, Adena Greenbaum, Gregory M. Lucas, Kathleen R. Page   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

On-site health service delivery models at syringe services programs in the United States: Results of a national cross-sectional survey

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) have many needs for health services, but frequently lack access to and/or do not utilize those services. Syringe services programs (SSPs) are low-stigma environments where health services can be provided, but ...
Czarina N. Behrends, Don C. Des Jarlais, Winston Luhur, Xinlin Lu, Grace J. Corry, Sara N. Glick, Shashi N. Kapadia, David C. Perlman, Bruce R. Schackman   +8 more
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Project STAMINA (Syringe Service Telemedicine Access for Medication-Assisted Intervention through NAvigation)

Project STAMINA aims to assess implementation and test effectiveness of a model for linking people who use opioids to evidence-based medications for opioid-use disorder (MOUD) through a syringe service program (SSP)-based intervention using a ...
Sarah Messmer, Nicole Gastala, Kim Erwin, Julie Williams, James Swartz, Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti, Michelle Hudson, Dennis Watson, Lisa Taylor, Antonio Jimenez   +9 more
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Substance use patterns, sociodemographics, and health profiles of harm reduction service recipients in Burlington, Vermont

Harm Reduction Journal
Background Understanding current substance use practices is critical to reduce and prevent overdose deaths among individuals at increased risk including persons who use and inject drugs.
Tyler G. Erath, Rosalie LaCroix, Erin O’Keefe, Stephen T. Higgins, Richard A. Rawson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The syringe gap: an assessment of sterile syringe need and acquisition among syringe exchange program participants in New York City

, 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, Karpati Adam, Heller Daliah I, Paone Denise   +3 more
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Hostility, compassion and role reversal in West Virginia’s long opioid overdose emergency

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background West Virginia is a largely rural state with strong ties of kinship, mutual systems of support and charitable giving. At the same time, wealth inequalities are extreme and the state’s drug overdose fatality rate stands above all others in the ...
Jeff Ondocsin, Sarah G. Mars, Mary Howe, Daniel Ciccarone   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Updates on syringe coverage and service uptake among needle and syringe programs in the United States, 2019-2020

, 2023
As injection drug use has increased in the US, so too has the prevalence of receptive syringe sharing. Since the 1980s, Needle and Syringe Programs (NSPs) have been an important source of clean injection equipment and disposal of used syringes.
Bluthenthal, Ricky N, Plesons, Marina D, Sugar, Sabrina E Soto, Kral, Alex H, Lambdin, Barrot H, Bartholomew, Tyler S, Wenger, Lynn D, Tookes, Hansel E, Patel, Sheila V   +8 more
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