This document has been written in response to one of eight recommendations in the West Midlands PCC’s Drugs Policy Report (2018), a report that adopts a new approach that is dictated by evidence and compassion and where the emphasis centres on harm reduction to help to lower crime, save money and support communities (West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner)
Bibliography: Interventions – Harm Reduction
Delivering health and care for people who sleep rough (PDF)
This research starts to answer the question of what needs to be in place for the delivery of joined-up services to a population of people sleeping rough – as a system, rather than a discrete collection of services (King’s Fund)
The Special Commission of Inquiry into the Drug ‘Ice’
A list of report sections from NSW, Australia
Framework for Response to the Use of Illicit Substances within Higher Education (PDF)
Based on the Report of the Rapid Response Group (RRG) on Use of Illicit Substances within Higher Education (Ireland)
Drug-related hospital emergency presentations in Europe: update from the Euro-DEN Plus expert network
This report presents the latest findings on drug-related hospital emergencies from a network of sentinel hospitals across Europe. Almost 24 000 emergency presentations were recorded at 32 sentinel hospitals over the first 4 years of the project (EMCDDA)
Access to hepatitis c treatment and care among people who inject drugs: failing people most disproportionately affected
Accurate, high-quality data on hepatitis C continues to be a struggle for countries that are scaling up treatment access, expanding testing services, and developing national hepatitis plans (heoCoalition)
Bloodborne viruses: Eye of the needle
‘Eye of the needle’ is a report on healthcare workers’ occupational exposures to bloodborne viruses such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV (Public Health England)
National intelligence network on drug health harms briefing
January 2020 (Public Health England)
Misuse of illicit drugs and medicines: applying All Our Health
Evidence and guidance to help health professionals identify, prevent or reduce drug-related harm (Public Health England)
ACT Pill Testing Trial 2019 (PDF)
Program evaluation (Australian National University)
Needle Syringe Program National Minimum Data Collection Report 2019
The Needle Syringe Program National Minimum Data Collection (NSP NMDC) supports the National Strategies for blood borne and sexually transmissible infections and complements the annual Australian Needle Syringe Program Survey National Data Report (The Kirby Institute, Australia)
Highlights from the EU Drug Markets Report for policy and practice
This short publication presents the main highlights from the EU Drug Markets Report 2019, targeting policy and practice (EMCDDA)
Global State of Harm Reduction: 2019 updates
The 2019 update to Harm Reduction International’s flagship publication, the Global State of Harm Reduction, includes updates to some of the key data in the report, including the opening of new drug consumption rooms, availability of needle and syringe programs, and references to harm reduction in national policy documents, among many other things
Toolkit containing strategies to prevent drug-related deaths in Scotland updated
A resource containing strategies to reduce drug-related deaths in Scotland has been updated and re-launched by Scottish Drugs Forum
Scottish Affairs Committee calls for decriminalisation and safe drug consumption rooms
The Scottish Affairs Committee publishes its report on Problem Drug Use in Scotland
HIV and people who inject drugs (PDF)
Monitoring implementation of the Dublin Declaration on partnership to fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia: 2018 progress report (ecdc)
Deaths of homeless people in England and Wales: 2018
Experimental Statistics of the number of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales. Figures are given for deaths registered in the years 2013 to 2018 (ONS)
Monitoring the elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat among people who inject drugs in Europe
This technical report focuses on an elimination barometer for viral hepatitis to help countries assess progress towards eliminating hepatitis C and B among people who inject drugs (PWID). The barometer is being developed by the EMCDDA together with its expert network on drug-related infectious diseases (DRID), as a follow-up to the first global health sector strategy on viral hepatitis endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2016 (EMCDDA)
CDC Awards New Funds to Stop Drug Overdoses, Deaths
As the drug overdose crisis evolves and becomes more complex, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is providing $301 million in new Overdose Data to Action funds to states and jurisdictions
Drug overdoses can be prevented — new resources released
The EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) launches today three new resources looking at drug overdoses in Europe and the interventions in place to prevent them
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