reduction has fallen from political grace within the UK where drug policy has come to focus first and foremost on ensuring that drug treatment services are focused on enabling drug users to become drug free and the term harm reduction is not even mentioned within the current UK drug strategy. ...
“Harm reduction, as a model and a philosophy, needs to reach people who may not be at the stage of pursuing treatment or abstinence,” said Carol Yang, NEXT Distro program director. “It addresses unsafe drug supply.” NEXT Distro distributes the overdose-reversing drug Naloxone to help kee...
President Biden'sNational Drug Control Strategyhas a whole section on harm reduction, saying, "Research shows harm reduction programs produce results." The government this year greenlit a $5 million grant to evaluate safe injection sites. But in Philadelphia, those sites were rejected. Council memb...
These smoke-free alternatives can complement existing tobacco control efforts, including smoking prevention and the encouragement of cessation. As such, they could be an important part of an overall harm reduction strategy and a benefit to public health....
Harm reduction for young people who use prescription opioids extra-medically: obstacles and opportunities. Int J Drug Policy. 2016;31:25–31. Article Google Scholar United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Strategy 2021–2025. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/strategy/index.html. Accessed 28 May...
While xylazine test strips are commercially available for consumer use, research is needed to understand the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of utilizing these tools as a harm reduction strategy, as well as what other types of interventions may be effective for preventing xylazine-related harms...
(OEND), which are community-based programs that distribute naloxone, a medication used to reverse opioid overdose, as well as trains people who use drugs and their family and friends to recognize opioid overdoses and use the medication. Drug-checking, which is a strategy that people use ...
Drug checking is increasingly recognized as an important harm reduction strategy in a variety of situations ranging from testing at music festivals to community-based efforts and sanctioned safe consumption sites [1, 2]. These efforts often began with reagent-based testing, mostly within the rave an...
ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES AS A HARM REDUCTION STRATEGY AMONG PERSONS IN TREATMENT FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111161Drug and Alcohol DependenceI Gallardo-CastilloS NahviM HeKB GeeA BayronER StevensJD LeeDT DuncanCM ClelandSE ShermanD SchatzO El-Shahawy...
With the advent of direct acting antivirals (DAAs) the World Health Organisation (WHO) adopted global strategy to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection by 2030. In Europe, people who inject drugs (PWID) account for the majority of new cases, howeve