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The Influence of Spatial Proximity to Syringe Services Programs and Secondary Syringe Exchange on the Risk of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Rural People Who Inject Drugs [PDF]

, 2022
Background: Rural people who inject drugs (PWID) have been disproportionately affected by the ongoing hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic. Methods: Using data from a cross-sectional study of PWID from rural New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, we ...
Romo, Eric
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Shifting the paradigm: physician-authorized, student-led efforts to provide harm reduction services amidst legislative opposition

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2021
Background For over 30 years, syringe services programs (SSPs) have served as an efficacious intervention for the prevention of HIV and Hepatitis C transmission among persons who use drugs.
Timothy P. McMullen, Mahan Naeim, Carol Newark, Haden Oliphant, Jeffrey Suchard, Faried Banimahd   +5 more
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Estimated cost of comprehensive syringe service program in the United States

PLOS ONE, 2019
To estimate the cost of establishing and operating a comprehensive syringe service program (SSP) free to clients in the United States.We identified the major cost components of a comprehensive SSP: (one-time start-up cost, and annual costs associated with personnel, operations, and prevention/medical services) and estimated the anticipated total costs (
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
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Estimating Individual Syringe Coverage at Syringe Services Programs

, 2023
The purpose of this guidance is to help syringe services programs (SSPs) in collecting and analyzing data on individual syringe coverage for their participants. Syringe coverage is an indicator that can help SSPs and other stakeholders estimate if people
Buer, Lesly-Marie
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Factors that influence enrollment in syringe services programs in rural areas: a qualitative study among program clients in Appalachian Kentucky

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
Background Enrolling sufficient number of people who inject drugs (PWID) into syringe services programs (SSP) is important to curtail outbreaks of drug-related harms. Still, little is known about barriers and facilitators to SSP enrollment in rural areas
Umedjon Ibragimov, Katherine E. Cooper, Evan Batty, April M. Ballard, Monica Fadanelli, Skylar B. Gross, Emma M. Klein, Scott Lockard, April M. Young, Hannah L. F. Cooper   +9 more
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Facilitators and barriers to monitoring and evaluation at syringe service programs

Harm Reduction Journal
Abstract Background Syringe services programs (SSPs) provide harm reduction supplies and services to people who use drugs and are often required by funders or partners to collect data from program participants. SSPs can use these data during monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to inform programmatic decision making ...
Elise Healy, Arianna Rubin Means, Kelly Knudtson, Noah Frank, Alexa Juarez, Stephanie Prohaska, Courtney McKnight, Don Des Jarlais, Alice Asher, Sara N. Glick   +9 more
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Assessing the role of syringe dispensing machines and mobile van outlets in reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk groups of injecting drug users (IDUs): a review

Harm Reduction Journal, 2007
Reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk injecting drug users (IDUs) is one of the most important challenges for contemporary needle syringe programs (NSPs).
Islam Md Mofizul, Conigrave Katherine M
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HCV serostatus and injection sharing practices among those who obtain syringes from pharmacies and directly and indirectly from syringe services programs in rural New England

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2023
Background Among people who inject drugs (PWID), obtaining syringes via syringe services programs (SSPs) and pharmacies reduces injection sharing practices associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Eric Romo, Abby E. Rudolph, Thomas J. Stopka, Bo Wang, Bill M. Jesdale, Peter D. Friedmann   +5 more
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Association between a citywide ban on syringe distribution and provision of harm reduction services

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: Syringe services programs (SSPs) decrease HIV and overdose incidence among people who use drugs (PWUD). In May 2024, Pueblo, Colorado, banned syringe distribution, citing public complaints about syringe litter.
Pranav Padmanabhan, Paul Christine, Jarratt Pytell, Nikki Wagner, Jason Gibbons, Christine Charron, Katherine LeMasters   +6 more
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Three decades of research in substance use disorder treatment for syringe services program participants: a scoping review of the literature

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2023
Background Syringe services programs (SSPs) provide a spectrum of health services to people who use drugs, with many providing referral and linkage to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, and some offering co-located treatment with medications for ...
Andrea Jakubowski, Sabrina Fowler, Aaron D. Fox   +2 more
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