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Client characteristics associated with desire for additional services at syringe exchange programs
Journal of Substance Use, 2021The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between client characteristics and desired services offered at syringe exchange program (SEP) sites among women who inject drugs (WWID). We investigated whether a desire for additional services varied as a function of these client characteristics.A sample of 69 women who were syringe exchange ...
Daschel J. Franz, Camille C. Cioffi
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Implementing best‐practice with a local syringe service program: Needs‐based syringe distribution
Public Health Nursing, 2020AbstractObjectivesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cite access to sterile syringes as a key component of a comprehensive strategy aimed at limiting the spread of infectious disease among people who inject drugs (CDC, 2020, America’s drug overdose epidemic: Data to action). In an effort to implement best‐practice, inform stakeholders,
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Syringe services programs: White House releases model law
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly, 2021For syringe services programs (SSPs), which are legal under federal law, to operate, there must be state laws allowing them. This month, the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released a model law for states to use to ensure that such programs are accessible, safe and effective, and save money.
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AIDS and Behavior, 2019
Monitoring distributive syringe sharing (DSS) and syringe services program (SSP) use among persons who inject drugs (PWID) is important for HIV prevention. PWID aged ≥ 18 in 20 US cities were recruited for National HIV Behavioral Surveillance in 2015 using respondent-driven sampling, interviewed and offered HIV testing.
Monica Adams +5 more
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Monitoring distributive syringe sharing (DSS) and syringe services program (SSP) use among persons who inject drugs (PWID) is important for HIV prevention. PWID aged ≥ 18 in 20 US cities were recruited for National HIV Behavioral Surveillance in 2015 using respondent-driven sampling, interviewed and offered HIV testing.
Monica Adams +5 more
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Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2021
Predictors of syringe exchange behavior are critical to informing secondary prevention measures needed to attenuate risk of blood-borne infections among persons who inject drugs (PWID).Participants included PWIDs who attended a syringe services program in New York from 2015 to 2017 (n = 1777).
Maria A, Parker +3 more
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Predictors of syringe exchange behavior are critical to informing secondary prevention measures needed to attenuate risk of blood-borne infections among persons who inject drugs (PWID).Participants included PWIDs who attended a syringe services program in New York from 2015 to 2017 (n = 1777).
Maria A, Parker +3 more
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Evaluation of fentanyl test strip distribution in two Mid-Atlantic syringe services programs
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2021Fentanyl test strip (FTS) programs are designed to promote fentanyl awareness and reduce overdose risk by providing people who use drugs (PWUD) with a method of testing drugs for the presence of fentanyl prior to use. In 2018, two large syringe services programs (SSP) in the U.S.
Ju Nyeong, Park +8 more
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Role of Service Providers of Needle Syringe Program in Preventing HIV/AIDS
AIDS Education and Prevention, 2010To provide a national-scale picture of the needle exchange program in Taiwan, this study examined (a) needle and syringe program (NSP) service providers' AIDS-relevant harm reduction knowledge and attitudes; and (b) NSP services schemes and operation barriers encountered by different service modalities.
Tzu-I, Tsai +2 more
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Lessons Learned Implementing Syringe Services Programs at Rural Health Departments in Kentucky
AIDS and BehaviorUntil recently, most syringe services programs (SSPs) in the United States operated in metropolitan areas. This study explores how SSP implementers at rural health departments in Kentucky secured support for SSP operations. In late 2020, we conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 18 people involved with rural SSP implementation in Kentucky.
Sean T. Allen +7 more
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Strengthening Syringe Services Programs (CDC)
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