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When is an abscess more than an abscess? Syringe services programs and the harm reduction safety-net: a case report

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background Syringe services programs (SSPs) are able to offer wrap-around services for people who inject drugs (PWID) and improve health outcomes. Case presentation A 47-year-old man screened positive for a skin and soft tissue infection (SSTI) at an SSP
Marcus Castillo, Margaret E. C. Ginoza, Tyler S. Bartholomew, David W. Forrest, Cestaki Greven, David P. Serota, Hansel E. Tookes   +6 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, Jonathan, Feelemyer, Paul, LaKosky, Kathryn, Szymanowski, Kamyar, Arasteh   +4 more
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Harmonizing disease prevention and police practice in the implementation of HIV prevention programs: Up-stream strategies from Wilmington, Delaware

Harm Reduction Journal, 2012
Introduction Improving access to sterile injection equipment is a key component in community-based infectious disease prevention. Implementation of syringe access programs has sometimes been complicated by community opposition and police interference ...
Silverman Basha, Davis Corey S, Graff Julia, Bhatti Umbreen, Santos Melissa, Beletsky Leo   +5 more
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Treatment experiences for skin and soft tissue infections among participants of syringe service programs in North Carolina

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Introduction Bacterial and fungal infections, such as skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) and infective endocarditis (IE), are increasing among people who use drugs in the United States.
Mary C. Figgatt, Zach R. Salazar, Louise Vincent, Diannee Carden-Glenn, Kelly Link, Lauren Kestner, Tyler Yates, Asher Schranz, Elizabeth Joniak-Grant, Nabarun Dasgupta   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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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Double counting of clients using services in Iran: implications for assessing the reach of harm reduction programs

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Many people with high-risk sexual or injection behaviors use harm reduction services with different identities and are therefore counted more than once in client databases.
Fatemeh Tavakoli, Willi Mcfarland, Nima Ghalekhani, Mehrdad Khezri, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, Marzieh Mahboobi, Ali Mohammad Hosseionpour, Ali Komasi, Mehdi Ghorbanian, Nasim Nasiri Moghadam, Maryam Taghipour, Hamid Sharifi   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic modelling of hepatitis C virus transmission among people who inject drugs: a methodological review [PDF]

, 2014
Equipment sharing among people who inject drugs (PWID) is a key risk factor in infection by hepatitis C virus (HCV). Both the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing HCV transmission in this population (such as opioid ...
Cousien, Anthony, Deuffic-Burban, Sylvie, Dhersin, Jean-Stephane, Jauffret-Roustide, Marie, Tran, Viet Chi, Yazdanpanah, Yazdan   +5 more
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Project T-SHARP: study protocol for a multi-site randomized controlled trial of tele-harm reduction for people with HIV who inject drugs

Trials, 2023
Background The resurgence of HIV outbreaks and rising prevalence among people who inject drugs (PWID) remain exigent obstacles to Ending the HIV Epidemic in the USA.
Hansel E. Tookes, Asa Oxner, David P. Serota, Elizabeth Alonso, Lisa R. Metsch, Daniel J. Feaster, Jessica Ucha, Edward Suarez, David W. Forrest, Kathryn McCollister, Allan Rodriguez, Michael A. Kolber, Teresa A. Chueng, Sheryl Zayas, Bernice McCoy, Kyle Sutherland, Chetwyn Archer, Tyler S. Bartholomew   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Peer-delivered harm reduction and recovery support services: initial evaluation from a hybrid recovery community drop-in center and syringe exchange program

Harm Reduction Journal, 2018
Background Recovery from substance use disorder (SUD) is often considered at odds with harm reduction strategies. More recently, harm reduction has been categorized as both a pathway to recovery and a series of services to reduce the harmful consequences
Robert D. Ashford, Brenda Curtis, Austin M. Brown   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementation determinants of safer smoking supplies in U.S. syringe services programs [PDF]

Implementation Science Communications
Abstract Background The prevalence of smoking opioids and other unregulated drugs has increased across the United States (U.S.) since 2000. Improved access to safer smoking supplies may reduce the health consequences of inhalation while helping to engage more people who use drugs in syringe services programs (SSPs ...
William H. Eger, Angel K. Gomez, Kirstin Kielhold, Tyler S. Bartholomew, Angela R. Bazzi   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources