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Syringe Service Programs: A Solution to Promoting Good Health & Well Being [PDF]

, 2020
Syringe service programs offer crucial benefits for members and promote an overall better health and well being for society. SDG-3 is designed to promote good health and well being and syringe exchange programs (SEP) is one solution to helping achieve ...
Roth, Amy
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Syringe exchange in the United States, 1996: a national profile.

, 1999
OBJECTIVES: This paper provides 1996 information on the status of US syringe exchange programs and compares these findings with data from our 1994 survey. METHODS: In November 1996, questionnaires were mailed to 101 syringe exchange programs.
Q Shi, J Clark, D C Des Jarlais, D Paone, D Purchase   +4 more
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Viewpoint. ‘New evidence’ for syringe services programs? A call for rigor and skepticism.

, 2023
Syringe services programs (SSPs) are our nation's backbone for providing a range of services to some of the most stigmatized and disadvantaged individuals (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019).
Kral, Alex H, Humphrey, Jamie L, Prohaska, Stephanie, Bluthenthal, Ricky N, Lakosky, Paul, Lambdin, Barrot H   +5 more
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Efficacy of Syringe Access Services: A Case Study of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s Syringe Access Services (SAS) Program [PDF]

, 2014
This research is a case study ofone of the United States largest and most prominent syringe exchange program, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s Syringe Access Services (SAS).
Velez, Elissa
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Implementation of low-dose buprenorphine induction at a syringe services program

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Abstract Background Fentanyl’s penetration into the unregulated drug supply has complicated the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD), particularly by increasing the risk of buprenorphine-precipitated opioid withdrawal (BPOW).
Hauschild, Maia H., Warp, Peyton V., Eger, William H., Hood, Ryan, Bahamon, Monica, Forrest, David W., Bartholomew, Tyler S., Suarez, Edward, Chueng, Teresa A., Ciraldo, Katrina J., Tookes, Hansel E., Serota, David P.   +11 more
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Funding and Delivery of Syringe Services Programs in the United States, 2022

American Journal of Public Health
Objectives. To describe the current financial health of syringe services programs (SSPs) in the United States and to assess the predictors of SSP budget levels and associations with delivery of public health interventions. Methods. We surveyed all known SSPs operating in the United States from February to June 2022 (n = 456), of which 68% responded ...
Shelley N. Facente, Jamie L. Humphrey, Christopher Akiba, Sheila V. Patel, Lynn D. Wenger, Hansel Tookes, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Paul LaKosky, Stephanie Prohaska, Terry Morris, Alex H. Kral, Barrot H. Lambdin   +11 more
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Implementation of a Wound Care Algorithm at Local Syringe Services Program

, 2023
Skin and soft tissue infections disproportionately affect people who inject drugs (PWID). Wounds and infections that occur secondary to injection drug use have physical, emotional, and social effects.
Gobush, Alaina, NC DOCKS at East Carolina University   +1 more
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Lessons learned from the Amsterdam Cohort Studies among people who use drugs: a historical perspective

Harm Reduction Journal, 2021
The Netherlands is well known for its early adoption of harm reduction (HR) programs at the height of its heroin crisis in the 1970s/1980s, including the implementation of the first needle and syringe program worldwide.
Daniela K. van Santen, Roel A. Coutinho, Anneke van den Hoek, Giel van Brussel, Marcel Buster, Maria Prins   +5 more
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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
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Syringe Services Programs-A Technical Package of Effective Strategies and Approaches for Planning, Design, and Implementation [PDF]

This technical package provides evidence of the effectiveness of strategies and approaches for supporting successful planning, design, implementation, and sustainability of syringe services programs (SSPs)

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