Bibliography: Interventions – Harm Reduction

Protocol for Scotland’s public health policy evaluation, and a new measure to assess impact (Drugs: education, prevention, and policy)

The World Health Organization is launching a new policy on injection safety and a global campaign with support from the IKEA Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to help all countries tackle the pervasive issue of unsafe injections (WHO)

The toxicological margin of exposure (MOE) approach validates epidemiological and social science-based drug ranking approaches especially in regard to the positions of alcohol and tobacco (high risk) and cannabis (low risk) (Scientific Reports)

Advice for local authorities and local partners on promoting the wider availability of naloxone to reduce overdose deaths from heroin and similar drugs (PHE)

Before health professionals can communicate effectively with these clients about the potentially stigma-laden issue of HCV they need to develop an awareness of the various elements of risk in the ChemSex environment (BMJ)

The data gathered for the report provided a critical baseline against which progress could be measured in terms of international, regional and national recognition of harm reduction in policy and practice (Harm Reduction International)

The two EU agencies will continue to monitor the situation through their respective early warning systems (EMCDDA)

New review studies the effectiveness of overdose antidote, naloxone – trendspotter study explores online supply of drugs (EMCDDA)

Second phase of NEPTUNE project will improve delivery of evidence-based treatment for ‘club drugs’ by providing new resources for clinicians (NHS)

Can naloxone provided in the community help reduce the thousands of drug-induced deaths recorded in Europe every year? This is the question explored by the EMCDDA in a new paper

This guide is designed to provide councillors with an introduction to NPS, how they can raise awareness of the harm NPS use can cause and what councils can do to tackle sales of NPS in their areas (Local Government Association)

The drug market period in which injecting initiation occurred influenced the first drug injected and influenced some aspects of subsequent drug use. In the context of highly dynamic drug markets in which polydrug use is common there is a need for broad harm reduction and drug treatment services which are flexible and responsive to changing patterns of drug use (Drug Policy)