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Improving the Health of Injection Drug Users


Harm Reduction Framework - SAMHSA

to support their pathways to improved health outcomes. Community ... Influences of drug use stigma on the healthcare engagement of people who inject drugs.

Harm Reduction | Overdose Prevention Strategy - HHS.gov

Individuals inherently deserve services that promote health, regardless of whether they use drugs. Evidence-based harm reduction strategies minimize ...

Harm Reduction - CMHA Ontario

... inject drugs. Harm ... The overarching goal of the harm reduction approach is to prevent the negative consequences of substance use and to improve health.

Health programmes and services addressing the prevention and ...

Objectives People who inject drugs (PWID) experience a high burden of injection drug use-related infectious disease and challenges in accessing adequate ...

Harm Reduction - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

Interventions that effectively treat drug dependence can reduce illicit drug use and, hence, the frequency of injection, as well as improve health and social ...

Harm Reduction Services Improve Health Equity & Save Lives

This evidence-based, compassionate approach to drug users results in fewer life-threatening infections related to unsterile drug injection, ...

Health Conditions Associated with Injection Drug Use in Allegheny ...

The opioid epidemic is associated with an increase in fatal overdoses and infections associated with unsterile injection practices. This brief was developed to ...

The Main Factors Affecting the Tendency for “Injection Drug Use”

Injection drug use (IDU) is one of the most dangerous and addictive methods of drug abuse. The current statistics showed that the rate of IDU is increasing, and ...

Management of Infective Endocarditis in People Who Inject Drugs

There are increasing data that OPAT is safe and effective in people with drug use–associated infections, particularly those with stable housing ...

People Who Inject Drugs (PWID)

This discourages PWID from accessing targeted healthcare and harm reduction services and contributes to the spread of HIV. Poverty: Poverty and drug use are ...

Managing substance use disorders with 'empathy and love'

It is providing people who inject drugs with clean needles. It is increasing access to opioid overdose reversal medications such as naloxone. It ...

Hepatitis C in Injection-Drug Users — A Hidden Danger of the ...

Although political and public health leaders have begun to confront this urgent problem, hidden beneath it lies another danger: the increasing ...

Prevention and harm reduction - Department of Health, Victoria

Prevention and harm reduction aims to prevent the use of illegal drugs and reduce harmful use of alcohol and pharmaceutical medications.

Substance Use Disorder (SUD): Symptoms & Treatment

Some of the most common substances include alcohol, opioids and marijuana. It can range from mild to severe (addiction). SUD is a treatable mental health ...

How Should Harm Reduction Be Included in Care Continua for ...

Evidence-based harm reduction interventions include naloxone and syringe service programs. Improving equitable outcomes for those with opioid use disorder (OUD) ...

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER OP-ED: SAFE INJECTION SITES ...

“Safe injection sites” invite those suffering from substance abuse disorder to inject illegal drugs like heroin and illicit fentanyl under the “ ...

Assessing and Improving the Health-Related Quality of Life Among ...

... injection drug use. Interestingly, current HCV infection, liver fibrosis stage, high-risk alcohol consumption, and gender were not found to ...

Making Drug Use a Crime Makes HIV Prevention, Treatment More ...

Baral says policies need to be put in place that allow for programs such as needle exchanges and possibly safe consumption facilities to ...

The Health Dangers of IV Drug Use - Gateway Foundation

Intravenous drug use can increase the risk of medical complications, including infections and abscesses. Learn more about the health dangers ...

HIV Continues to Spread Among People Who Inject Drugs

of people who inject drugs, an increase in homelessness among drug users, an increase in hepatitis ... drugs to the Health Department promptly by phone to 215-685 ...