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Insufficient access to harm reduction measures in prisons in 5 countries (PRIDE Europe): a shared European public health concern [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Prisoners constitute a high-risk population, particularly for infectious diseases. The aim of this study was to estimate the level of infectious risk in the prisons of five different European countries by measuring to what extent the prison ...
Brentari, Cinzia, Holm, Karina, Jauffret-Roustide, Marie, Kolind, Torsten, Lion, Caroline, M Carrieri, Patrizia, Maguet, Olivier, Michel, Laurent, Moser, Andrea, Nava, Felice, Schiltz, Julie, Stöver, Heino, Van Malderen, Sara, Vanderplasschen, Wouter, Weltzien, Nadja   +14 more
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who inject drugs accessing harm reduction services in an rural American state

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background The impact of public health policies during the COVID-19 pandemic on people who inject drugs (PWID) has varied across regions. In other countries, recent research has shown that PWID access to harm reduction services, despite rapid adaptations,
Kinna Thakarar, Michael Kohut, Rebecca Hutchinson, Rebecca Bell, Hannah E. Loeb, Debra Burris, Kathleen M. Fairfield   +6 more
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Intersecting substance use treatment and harm reduction services: exploring the characteristics and service needs of a community-based sample of people who use drugs

Harm Reduction Journal, 2022
Background Substance use treatment and harm reduction services are essential components of comprehensive strategies for reducing the harms of drug use and overdose.
Noa Krawczyk, Sean T. Allen, Kristin E. Schneider, Keisha Solomon, Hridika Shah, Miles Morris, Samantha J. Harris, Susan G. Sherman, Brendan Saloner   +8 more
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Innovations in Opioid Law and Policy Interventions Workshop: Summary of Proceedings [PDF]

, 2018
In 2017, Indiana University, in cooperation with Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and community partners, launched the Grand Challenge: Responding to the Addictions Crisis initiative, a university-wide effort to advance interdisciplinary research and ...
Beukema, Emily, Hoss, Aila, Silverman, Ross D., Terry, Nicolas P.   +3 more
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Comparing harm reduction and overdose response services between community-based and public health department syringe service programmes using a national cross-sectional surveyResearch in context

The Lancet Regional Health. Americas
Summary: Background: Syringe services programmes (SSPs) are an evidence-based strategy to reduce infectious diseases and deliver overdose prevention interventions for people who use drugs.
Bradley R. Ray, Jamie L. Humphrey, Sheila V. Patel, Christopher F. Akiba, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Hansel Tookes, Paul A. LaKosky, Lynn D. Wenger, Alex H. Kral, Barrot H. Lambdin   +9 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

Is PEPFAR Funding for Key Populations Aligned with the Epidemiologic Burden? [PDF]

, 2016
Key populations (KPs)—gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM); people who inject drugs (PWID), female sex workers (FSW); and transgender people (TG)—are at significantly higher risk for HIV, face a higher burden of disease, have less ...

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Selling Syringes to injecting drug users: A study of five pharmacies in Hanoi, Vietnam

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2008
Background: HIV continues to spread rapidly throughout Vietnam with injection drug use remaining the main risk factor for infection. The extent of pharmacy-based needle and syringe distribution has not previously been measured in Vietnam; this article ...
Christopher A. Pankonin,1 Peter Higgs,2 Gary Reid,2 Campbell Aitken.3
doaj   +3 more sources

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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Large decrease in syringe distribution following the introduction of fentanyl in King County, Washington

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: Syringe services programs (SSPs) serve as key platforms to deliver harm reduction services to people who use drugs (PWUD). Changes in drug supply and drug consumption behaviors, particularly the increasing use of fentanyl through non ...
Sara N. Glick, Joe Tinsley, Laura Pritchard Wirkman, Apoorva Mallya, Peter Cleary, Matthew R. Golden, Thomas Fitzpatrick   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source