Bibliography: Interventions – Harm Reduction

Move is seen as a way to prevent accidental overdose from opioids by widening who would receive the live-saving medication (Practical Pain Management)

This publication reports on details of Injecting Equipment Provision (IEP) to People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs) across Scotland (An Official Statistics Publication for Scotland)

In the midst of growing debate and public interest in supervised injection facilities, Harm Reduction Coalition has released a meeting summary of a consultation on alternatives to public injecting

As of January 2016, we adopted obligatory Naloxone training as part of our practice policy for all patients being prescribed opiate substitute therapy in the practice (RCGP)

This brief provides answers to key questions about drug checking services, like … what are drug-checking services? Why check drugs? What do drug checking services look like around the world? What do they do? How would a service sit within the existing policy context in Australia? What are the legal implications of a service? And what related services and programs are currently operating in Australia? (Unharm)

The report provides insights on the potential role of supervised injection facilities in the United States, and considerations for advancing policy, planning and implementation of SIFs based on experiences in other countries (Harm Reduction Coalition)

Consultation with service users and service providers (Public Health Agency)

Evidence supports the need for a shift in the global approach to drug use. In this report, Do no harm: health, human rights and people who use drugs, UNAIDS shows what works to reduce the impact of HIV and other harms related to drug use (UNAIDS)

The New Zealand Drug Harm Index 2016 estimates the social cost of drug-related harms and intervention costs in 2014/15 as NZ$1.8 billion (Ministry of Health, New Zealand)

Investigator-Led Study Showed Treatment With Extended-Release Naltrexone Reduced Relapse Rates and Demonstrated Longer Median Time to Relapse to Opioid Dependence During Six-Month Treatment Period (Bloomberg)

Consultation with service users and service providers (INEF)

Drugs.ie: The ‘What’s in the Powder?’ campaign is the result of a collaboration between three Dublin universities – DIT, TCD, and UCD – and the Ana Liffey Drug Project

Effectively Managing The Harms Associated with Crystal Methamphetamine (Drug and Alcohol Research Connections)

Even though prisoners do not forfeit their human rights, such as the right to health, there is an enormous gap between health and human rights standards and their effective implementation in places of detention (IHR)

This report provides guidance, driven by findings from the community of people who inject drugs and their allies, for countries and international partners alike to make this transition (EHRN)

This issue is explored today in a new report from the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) entitled Preventing opioid overdose deaths with take-home naloxone

A federal budget bill now under consideration could lift the funding ban on syringe exchange programmes (Aidsmap)

Contact with emergency services, particularly for drug overdose, remains a lost opportunity to provide referrals for harm reduction and naloxone training programmes to PWID at greater risk of mortality (Harm Reduction Journal)

This report examines the causes of continuing late HIV diagnosis in the United Kingdom and review interventions to reduce the number of individuals presenting late (CPH)

An investigation into the needs and experiences of staff and service users (CPH)

Monitoring Report 2014/15 (ISD)

Guidance (Department of Health)