Health departments and community-based organizations across the country have been stepping up to respond to the opioid crisis. This project aimed to identify a potential tool they can use to prevent overdose deaths and engage with people who use opioids to help them move toward addiction treatment...
The National Harm Reduction Conference is the only multidisciplinary gathering in the United States focusing on the health of individuals and communities impacted by drug use. The purpose of the conference is to inspire and explore new perspectives on incorporating Harm Reduction into direct services, ...
Because study participants were enrolled from naloxone distribution sites, such health departments, this population may be better informed about emerging drugs and drug-related risks than other PWUD in the community. In addition, some counties contributed only a few participants to the study. There ...
Harm reduction interventions function at the community level to provide health benefits and avoidance of harm to persons engaging in illicit and injection drug use. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 gives states, local, tribal, and territorial health departments the opportunity to use federal...
This gives partners leverage when they talk about need with health departments, politicians, and others.” NEXT Distro maps the locations of opioid overdoses reported to its online reporting form and shares that data with the New York State Department of Health. To identify where needle exchange ...
Despite a plethora of health-related problems, access to primary healthcare is often limited for drug users (DUs). Many seek care at emergency departments and tertiary hospitals because of late presentation of illness. The costs to both DUs and the health system are such that harm reduction bas...
Re-framing the policing of organized drug crime in the UK as harm reduction Henrikson, Ph.D., M.P.H., from the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, and colleagues conducted a systematic review of the benefits and harms of screening for pancreatic adenocarcinoma to ...
In the US, access to FTS for home use is variable and is primarily being supported by public health departments and community-based harm reduction organizations. Because access to FTS is limited, little is known about (1) the feasibility and acceptability of this intervention among public health...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is one of the leading UN agencies promoting harm reduction. Since the establishment of the Global Programme on AIDS, WHO has been working towards an effective response to the HIV epidemic among PWID. WHO's work is organized into a number of components: esta...
Harm reduction approaches to alcohol use: Health promotion, prevention, and treatment Harm reduction approaches to alcohol problems have endured a controversial history in both the research literature and the popular media. Although several ... GA Marlatt,K Witkiewitz - 《Addictive Behaviors》 被引...