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Insights on Prison Needle and Syringe Programs: Research With Former Prisoners in Canada

, 2017
Although injection drug use occurs inside Canadian federal prisons, the correctional service does not allow prisoners access to sterile injection equipment as a harm reduction measure.
Ann De Shalit, Emily van der Meulen, Tara Marie Watson   +2 more
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Examination of pharmacists’ support for implementation of syringe exchange programs in community pharmacies in North Carolina: a social ecological approach [PDF]

, 2020
Background: In the US, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the leading bloodborne infection and injection drug use is the most common mode of transmission. North Carolina (NC) is one of the states with the highest rates of acute HCV infection.
Roberts, Heather Hinkle, NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro   +1 more
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Impact of Lab-Based Drug Checking Services on Syringe Service Program Engagement in Maryland

Harm Reduction Journal
Abstract Purpose: The introduction of synthetic substances into the unregulated drug supply has driven a surge in overdose deaths, posing significant public health challenges in timely substance identification, engagement with people who use drugs (PWUD), and access to treatment. Maryland's Rapid Analysis of Drugs (RAD) program, piloted
Berry, Caitlin M., Newton, David, Rybak, Margaret, Burnett, Gregory Malik, Najarro, Marcela, Sisco, Edward, Lopes, Jasmine, Leber, Dennis   +7 more
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Individual-level needle and syringe coverage amongst people who inject drugs

, 2019
“Coverage” is a means of evaluating any public health programs effectiveness. Needle and syringe distribution coverage for people who inject drugs is traditionally measured at the population-level, which has a number of recognised limitations ...
DANIEL JOHN OKEEFE (5073833)
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Post-Graduate Volunteer/Service Information Dinner

, 2010
Attendees explored various full-time service programs, all of which offered opportunities working on women\u27s ...
Programs, Service
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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).

, 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), Maria V. Aslam (6640661), Ryan Augustine (6640664), Patricia M. Dietz (836942), Alyson Rose-Wood (6640670), Kwame Owusu-Edusei (6640673), Alice Asher (6640658), Eliana Duncan (6640667), Jonathan Mermin (184948), John Ward (332385)   +9 more
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COVID-19 vaccine implementation in a syringe services program: Experiences of frontline staff

BMC Health Services Research
Abstract Background Despite people with substance use disorders, including people who inject drugs (PWID), experiencing increased risk for COVID-19 infection and adverse outcomes, COVID-19 vaccination rates among PWID are consistently lower than those observed in the general population.
Marina Plesons, Sabrina E. Soto Sugar, Rutendo Chimbaru, Giuliano McDonald, Lily Friedman, Ernest Thompson, Angela R. Bazzi, Hansel E. Tookes, Tyler S. Bartholomew   +8 more
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Modeling the cost-effectiveness and impact on fatal overdose and initiation of buprenorphine-naloxone treatment at syringe service programs. [PDF]

Addiction, 2022
Adams JW, Savinkina A, Fox A, Behrends CN, Madushani RWMA, Wang J, Chatterjee A, Walley AY, Barocas JA, Linas BP.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Harm Reduction Panel [PDF]

, 2018
Objectives are (1) Describe HIV/HCV prevalence in TN and Central Appalachia; (2) Understand syringe access in pharmacy settings.
Brooks, Billy
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Syringe service program utilization, behavioral, and experiential factors associated with greater naloxone protection in a longitudinal cohort of people who use illicit opioids in New York city

Harm Reduction Journal
Background Despite efforts to blanket high-mortality communities with no-cost naloxone, drug checking technologies, and alternatives to using opioids alone, there remains a considerable lack of knowledge about how exposure to these low-threshold ...
Alex S. Bennett, Yuyu Chen, Adrian Harris, David Frank, Saba Rouhani, Alice Cepeda, Alverado Valdez, Jemar R. Bather, Melody S. Goodman, Luther Elliott   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source