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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
doaj   +1 more source

Fentanyl test strips as an opioid overdose prevention strategy: Findings from a syringe services program in the Southeastern United States.

The International journal on drug policy, 2019
BACKGROUND In 2016, the number of overdose deaths involving illicitly-manufactured fentanyl (IMF) surpassed heroin and prescription opioid deaths in the United States for the first time, with IMF-involved overdose deaths increasing more than 500% across ...
N. Peiper, S. Clarke, Louise B Vincent, D. Ciccarone, A. Kral, Jon E. Zibbell   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sterile syringe access and disposal among injection drug users newly enrolled in methadone maintenance treatment: a cross-sectional survey

Harm Reduction Journal, 2006
Background We sought to assess injection practices, means of acquiring and disposing of syringes, and utilization and knowledge of harm reduction resources among injection drug users (IDUs) entering methadone maintenance treatment (MMT).
Arnsten Julia H, McNeely Jennifer, Gourevitch Marc N   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of COVID-19 on New York State’s Drug User Health Hubs and syringe service programs: a qualitative study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background Syringe service programs (SSPs) deliver critical harm reduction services to people who inject drugs (PWID). Some SSPs in New York State received enhanced funding to provide additional services to combat opioid overdose fatalities.
Mercy Ude, Czarina N. Behrends, Shea Kelly, Bruce R. Schackman, Allan Clear, Rebecca Goldberg, Kitty Gelberg, Shashi N. Kapadia   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public Health Outcomes as a Measure of Efficacy of Syringe Exchange Programs [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction. A syringe exchange is a public health intervention that offers nonjudgmental services to intravenous drug users (IVDU), providing clean syringes in exchange for used syringes.
Corse, Andrew, Donaldson, Katelyn, Gallagher, Andrew, Jacobsen, Peter, Larrabee, Jerry, Li, Anita, Pratt, Morgan R, Smith, Benjamin F., Tajik, Amelia V., Vezina, T.   +9 more
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2065. Increasing the HIV screening rates in Rural Syringes Service Programs

Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2022
Abstract Background The Kentucky Income Reinvestment Program (KIRP) is a statewide reinvestment of income generated by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Kentucky AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which provides comprehensive early intervention services targeting those at the highest risk for HIV ...
Jana Collins, Jaime Soria, James Thacker, Greg Corby-Lee, Connie White, Tisha Johnson, Ardis Hoven, Alice C Thornton   +7 more
openaire   +1 more source

Plecstatin inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma tumorigenesis and invasion through cytolinker plectin

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The ruthenium‐based metallodrug plecstatin exerts its anticancer effect in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) primarily through selective targeting of plectin. By disrupting plectin‐mediated cytoskeletal organization, plecstatin inhibits anchorage‐dependent growth, cell polarization, and tumor cell dissemination.
Zuzana Outla, Jan Kosla, Magdalena Prechova, Lukas Frick, Patricia Bortel, Yasmin Borutzki, Andrea Bileck, Christopher Gerner, Samuel M. Meier‐Menches, Selma Osmanagic‐Myers, Martin Gregor   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Current attitudes toward drug checking services and a comparison of expected with actual drugs present in street drug samples collected from opioid users

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background The opioid epidemic continues to be associated with high numbers of fatalities in the USA and other countries, driven mainly by the inclusion of potent synthetic opioids in street drugs.
James A. Swartz, Marya Lieberman, A. David Jimenez, Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti, Heather D. Whitehead, Kathleen L. Hayes, Lisa Taylor, Elizabeth Prete   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

14C contamination testing in natural abundance laboratories: a new preparation method using wet chemical oxidation and some experiences [PDF]

, 2016
Substances enriched with radiocarbon can easily contaminate samples and laboratories used for natural abundance measurements. We have developed a new method using wet chemical oxidation for swabbing laboratories and equipment to test for 14C ...
Fahrni, Simon, Haghiour, Negar, Lang, Susan Q., Lechleitner, Franziska, Mcintyre, Cameron P., Synal, Hans-Arno, Wacker, Lukas   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Dietary nitrate and nitrite protect against doxorubicin‐induced cardiac fibrosis and oxidative protein damage in tumor‐bearing mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Chemotherapies such as doxorubicin can have toxic effects on healthy cardiovascular/heart tissue. Following up on a doxorubicin toxicity study in mice without tumors where nitrate water was cardioprotective (lessened toxicity), this study with tumor‐bearing mice undergoing doxorubicin treatment showed no negative effect of nitrate and nitrite on drug ...
Rama D. Yammani, Xiaofei Chen, Nildris Cruz‐Diaz, Xuewei Zhu, Swati Basu, Daniel B. Kim‐Shapiro, David R. Soto‐Pantoja, Leslie B. Poole   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source