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Reciprocal influences between overdose experiences and naloxone access among people who use drugs utilizing a syringe services program: a cross-lagged panel model [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Background The opioid epidemic continues to be one of the most pressing public health crises in the United States, with more than 80,000 overdose deaths in 2024.
Marina Plesons, Tyler Bartholomew, Hansel Tookes, Daniel Feaster   +3 more
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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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Law enforcement and syringe services program implementation in rural counties in Kentucky: a qualitative exploration [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Existing research in urban areas has documented a multitude of ways in which law enforcement may affect risks for bloodborne infectious disease acquisition among people who inject drugs (PWID), such as via syringe confiscation and engaging in ...
Sean T. Allen, Sarah Danforth, Suzanne M. Grieb, Jennifer L. Glick, Samantha J. Harris, Catherine Tomko, Susan G. Sherman   +6 more
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Hospital admissions among people who inject opioids following syringe services program implementation [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background Syringe services programs (SSPs) are an evidence-based harm reduction strategy that reduces dangerous sequelae of injection drug use among people who inject drugs (PWID) such as overdose.
K. J. Bornstein, A. E. Coye, J. E. St. Onge, H. Li, A. Muller, T. S. Bartholomew, H. E. Tookes   +6 more
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“It's my frenemy”: A qualitative exploration of knowledge and perceptions of fentanyl use during the COVID-19 pandemic in people who use drugs at a syringe services program in Philadelphia, PA [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundExacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the proliferation of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs, overdose deaths have surged in the United States, making it important to understand how individuals who use drugs experience and perceive the risks of ...
Sarah Bauerle Bass, Sarah Bauerle Bass, Patrick J. A. Kelly, Sphoorti Pandit-Kerr, Jenine Pilla, Katherine Morris, Erin Larsen, Jennifer P. Wisdom, Phillip R. Torralva   +8 more
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Anonymous Opt-Out HIV and hepatitis C screening at a syringe services program in Florida [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
This paper outlines the implementation of opt-out HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) screening at a syringe services program (SSP) in Florida, highlighting its effectiveness in reducing the transmission of these infectious diseases.
Heather Henderson, Jason Wilson, Bernice McCoy, Megan Sarmento, Asa Oxner   +4 more
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Racialized environments and syringe services program implementation: County-level factors. [PDF]

Drug Alcohol Depend
Racialized health inequities in substance use-related harms might emerge from differential access to syringe service programs (SSPs). To explore this, we examined the association between county-level racialized environments, other factors, and (1) SSP presence, and (2) per capita syringe and (3) naloxone distribution.2021 US National Survey of SSP data
Bluthenthal RN, Humphrey JL, Strack CN, Wenger LD, LaKosky P, Patel SV, Kral AH, Lambdin B.   +7 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Estimated cost of comprehensive syringe service program in the United States.

PLoS ONE, 2019
ObjectiveTo estimate the cost of establishing and operating a comprehensive syringe service program (SSP) free to clients in the United States.MethodsWe identified the major cost components of a comprehensive SSP: (one-time start-up cost, and annual ...
Eyasu H Teshale, Alice Asher, Maria V Aslam, Ryan Augustine, Eliana Duncan, Alyson Rose-Wood, John Ward, Jonathan Mermin, Kwame Owusu-Edusei, Patricia M Dietz   +9 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Perspectives on hepatitis A and B screening and immunization at a syringe services program: a mixed-methods study [PDF]

Harm Reduction Journal
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk for viral hepatitis, yet hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) screening and immunization rates remain low. Although offering HAV and HBV services at syringe services programs (
Subul Malik, Marina Plesons, Monica Faraldo, Tyler S. Bartholomew, Hansel E. Tookes, Edward Suarez, David W. Forrest   +6 more
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Barriers and facilitators of opioid treatment among Indigenous Syringe Services Program clients. [PDF]

Addict Sci Clin Pract
Abstract Introduction American Indian and Alaska Native individuals are disproportionately impacted by the opioid epidemic, partially due to structural racism. Tribal nations and communities are finding innovative ways to provide opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, but barriers to medications for opioid use disorder (
Stipek J, Mootz JJ, Johnson FL, Hallgren KA, Brown AL, Perron A, Aanji’bide Community Action Board, Alexander C, Greenfield BL.   +8 more
europepmc   +3 more sources