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Opportunities to Offer Harm Reduction to People who Inject Drugs ...


Opportunities to Offer Harm Reduction to People who Inject Drugs ...

Increased rates of overdose (OD) and blood-borne infections have been associated with injection drug use (IDU).

Opportunities to Offer Harm Reduction to People who Inject Drugs ...

Harm reduction services should therefore be expanded and offered to PWID in ID settings to reduce rates of OD, infection, and hospitalization.

Opportunities to Offer Harm Reduction to People who Inject Drugs ...

Abstract. Increased rates of overdose (OD) and blood-borne infections have been associated with injection drug use (IDU). This increasing overlap between I.

Harm reduction interventions for people who inject drugs - The Lancet

These include needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid agonist therapy (OAT), and take-home naloxone (THN). Other interventions, such as ...

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Harm reduction services should therefore be expanded and offered to PWID in ID settings to reduce rates of OD, infection, and hospitalization.

The Impact of Safe Consumption Sites Physical and Social Harm ...

Syringe exchange programs (SEPs), which employ the harm reduction model to combat the risks associated with drug use by providing people who inject drugs (PWID) ...

Harm Reduction | SAMHSA

There were more than 100,000 drug-involved overdose deaths in 2023. Harm reduction offers an opportunity to reach people who aren't otherwise accessing ...

Harm Reduction Principles

Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use.

OD2A Case Study: Harm Reduction | Overdose Prevention - CDC

Harm reduction is a public health approach that focuses on mitigating the harmful consequences of drug use, including transmission of infectious disease and ...

A Missing Piece to the Holistic Care of Patients Who Inject Drugs ...

It has been suggested that ID consultation, during a hospital admission for complications of drug use, is an opportune time to offer a bundled harm reduction ...

National Harm Reduction Coalition

We Work for the Harm Reduction Movement. · National Harm Reduction Coalition builds evidence-based strategies with and for people who use drugs. · NHRC creates ...

Harm reduction for people who use drugs: A life-saving opportunity

Though harm reduction in the context of substance use commonly targets people who inject drugs, people who use drugs via other routes can also benefit from harm ...

Harm reduction programmes: saving lives among people who inject ...

Opioid substitution therapy and other evidence-informed forms of drug dependence treatment curb drug use, reduce vulnerability to infectious ...

Key interventions to prevent and control infections among people ...

Drug consumption rooms – provide supervised injecting facilities to reduce injecting risk behaviour among people who inject drugs, which ...

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

Often described as a form of tertiary prevention, harm reduction is key to caring well for people who use drugs. Evidence-based harm reduction interventions ...

Harm Reduction Services for People Who Use Drugs Exploring Data ...

Such strategies and services include syringe services programs; providing fentanyl and xylazine test strips; distributing naloxone and other reversal ...

What is Harm Reduction?

Services and Practices · information on safer drug use · Drug consumption rooms · Needle & syringe programmes · Overdose prevention & reversal · Opioid Agonist ...

Harm Reduction & Injection Drugs: Use Safely With These 5 ...

This approach is particularly vital in mitigating the consequences of the HIV epidemic. Harm reduction offers practical HIV prevention options ...

Harm Reduction Framework - SAMHSA

what programs think they need), offering people tools to thrive. ... of work conditions and experiences of people who use drugs engaged in harm reduction.

Supporting and Sustaining Access to Harm Reduction Services for ...

Sometimes called "safer smoking kits," these can provide people who inject drugs an alternative to injecting to reduce the spread of infectious ...