This bulletin describes the awareness of naloxone and the take-home naloxone program in Australia, both nationally and by jurisdiction. It also explores access, use and acceptance of naloxone, and examines demographic differences for these aspects (NDARC)
Bibliography: Interventions – Harm Reduction
Adulterants, Contaminants and Co-occurring Substances in Drugs on the Illegal Market in Canada
Provides a snapshot of the contents of drugs on the illegal market in Canada using 2018–2019 data from drug seizures, drug checking services and a drug monitoring study. This bulletin is accompanied by a technical report featuring detailed research methods and data PDF (CCENDU )
COVID-19: guidance for commissioners and providers of services for people who use drugs or alcohol
This guidance outlines COVID-19 advice for commissioners and service providers involved in assisting people who are dependent on drugs or alcohol or both (PHE)
Assessing the Evidence on Supervised Drug Consumption Sites
This working paper assesses evidence on and arguments made about supervised consumption sites (RAND)
Clinical guidelines for use of depot buprenorphine (Buvidal® ) in the treatment of opioid dependence (PDF)
This Clinical Guideline has been developed to inform decision-making by clinicians prescribing and/or patients being treated with Buvidal® long-acting injected buprenorphine preparations (SMMGP)
Novel benzodiazepines: prevalence and harms in the UK
This report examines the evidence of prevalence and harms in the UK of several novel benzodiazepines and provides advice to the government (ACMD)
Out of harm’s way (PDF)
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)
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
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