Just as is the case with injecting facilities, substance checking is a successful, global health policy dynamic. Like all aspects of harm reduction the evidence supporting it is strong, persisting through variationsspecific towhere it is a reality. In Canada,Torontoran a comprehensive trial from 20...
“That’s a double-edged sword”: exploring the integration of supervised consumption services within community health centres in Toronto, Canada. Health Place. 2020;61:102245. Article PubMed Google Scholar Small W, Shoveller J, Moore D, Tyndall M, Wood E, Kerr T. Injection drug users’ ...
To reduce harms related to street-based consumption of illicit drugs, several European countries have added overdose prevention centres to the range of harm reduction services that they provide [1]. These are non-residential spaces where people can consume illicit drugs that they have obtained elsewh...
Keywords: alcohol dependence; alcoholism; anti-craving medications; compliance with treatment; comprehensive treatment; detoxification; economic costs; harm reduction strategy; opioid receptors; public health; reduction in alcohol consumption; stigma 1. Introduction Alcohol abuse is one...
information on the composition of the sample. Ideally, drug checking provides the identity of all active components and cutting agents in addition to quantitative information on the potency by measuring and reporting the concentration of the active ingredients. Harm reduction practices have long existed...
If the action plan is adopted risks that promote premises-level harm will have been addressed and a reduction in alcohol-related harm is expected. Action plans require premises to make changes to operating procedures (e.g. reducing capacity, changing how security staff are deployed, checking ...
When compared to the reference case scenario, it can be seen that the results of the simulation are highly sensitive to the assumption that there is no reduction in other cancer mortality. DISCUSSION Tamoxifen has been used as an adjuvant therapy for metastatic breast cancer and to decrease the...
centres for the provision of outpatient care and "the catchment" of the mentally and nervously ill at the early stages of disease - the cases in which "the disease did not yet damage the working capacity of the organism"; and social welfare, research, sanitary enlightenment and counselling ins...
Conclusions Alternative ROA are common among rural drug users. This finding has implications for rural substance abuse treatment and harm reduction, in which interventions should incorporate methods to prevent and reduce route-specific health complications of drug use. ...