harm reductionhepatitis C virusmedication-assisted treatmentopioid usepeople who inject drugssyringe service programsThe article discusses the authors' views about the evidence base for increasing hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment and harm reduction services in rural settings in America, and it mentions ...
harm reductionhepatitis C virusmedication‐assisted treatmentopioid usepeople who inject drugssyringe service programsThe article discusses the authors' views about the evidence base for increasing hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment and harm reduction services in rural settings in America, and it mentions...
Harm reduction is increasingly recognized as an essential part of healthcare for PWUD as it provides a set of evidence-based, practical strategies that aim to reduce the negative consequences associated with substance use [8,9,10,11]. Harm reduction as a larger concept and movement has its ro...
To address these questions, analysis ofN = 27 interviews with stakeholders actively involved in drug policy and harm reduction debates in England, UK and New South Wales, Australia, was conducted. Participants’ accounts suggest that although evidence can help focus discussions away from values a...
A lack of locally generated evidence of the success of harm reduction in Cambodia continues to hamper ongoing advocacy efforts across the community. “At the beginning, we were proud to be the first to bring the program into Cambodia. Now we fear that we might be bringing an inappropriate ...
capacity-building organization that promotes the health and dignity of individuals and communities impacted by drug use. Their efforts create spaces for dialogue and action that help heal the harms caused by racialized drug policies and build evidence-based strategies with and for people who use ...
Harm reduction (HR) is an evidence-based strategy aimed at mitigating adverse health, social and legal impacts associated with substance use [1]. HR employs a spectrum of targeted interventions designed to help individuals meet their substance use goals without requiring strict abstinence. These inter...
Reducing the spread of blood borne viruses (BBVs) and other injecting-related harm in prison will be best achieved by implementing specific evidence-based methods, a new consensus statement by The Harm Reduction in Prisons Working Group says.
to develop in many Asian countries, and are still not to scale in most. Repressive ‘war on drugs’ policies continue to impede implementation of effective evidence-based responses. It is over 25 years since HIV arrived in Asia, and 25 years since the first harm reduction programs began here...
but utilizes a cannabis-based approach to harm reduction in order to promote survival of the fittest. Evidence will be provided from peer-reviewed scientific literature that supports the hypothesis that humans, and all animals, make and use internally produced cannabis-like products (endocannabinoids)...