ArticleHarm reduction journal2009
Harm reduction in hospitals: is it time?
Article in Harm reduction journal, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.
- 'Tranq': perceptions of xylazine and harm reduction practices among people receiving treatment for substance use disorders.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Physician perspectives on reducing harm and supporting emergency department patients who use drugs.PloS one · 2025Article
- Perspectives of patients who inject drugs on a needle and syringe program at a large acute care hospital.PloS one · 2024Article
- Integrating Harm Reduction into Medical Care: Lessons from Three Models.Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM · 2023Article
- Harm reduction strategies in acute care for people who use alcohol and/or drugs: A scoping review.PloS one · 2023Article
- Advancing behavioral interventions for African American/Black and Latino persons living with HIV using a new conceptual model that integrates critical race theory, harm reduction, and self-determination theory: a qualitative exploratory study.International journal for equity in health · 2022Article
- Meeting people where they are: implementing hospital-based substance use harm reduction.Harm reduction journal · 2022Article
- Behavioral intervention grounded in motivational interviewing and behavioral economics shows promise with Black and English-speaking Latino persons living with HIV with unsuppressed HIV viral load in New York City: A mixed methods pilot study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Perceptions of prevalence, consequences, and strategies for managing contraband substance use in an inpatient concurrent disorders program: A qualitative study of patient perspectives and survey of clinician perspectives.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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- Feasibility, acceptability, concerns, and challenges of implementing supervised injection services at a specialty HIV hospital in Toronto, Canada: perspectives of people living with HIV.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Principles of Harm Reduction for Young People Who Use Drugs.Pediatrics · 2021Article
- Comparison of Treatment Options for Refractory Opioid Use Disorder in the United States and Canada: a Narrative Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2020Review
- "Beyond Safer Injecting"-Health and Social Needs and Acceptance of Support among Clients of a Supervised Injecting Facility.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Contingencies of the will: Uses of harm reduction and the disease model of addiction among health care practitioners.Health (London, England : 1997) · 2015Article
- Illicit drug use in acute care settings.Drug and alcohol review · 2015Article
- Willingness to access an in-hospital supervised injection facility among hospitalized people who use illicit drugs.Journal of hospital medicine · 2015Article
- Hospitals as a 'risk environment': an ethno-epidemiological study of voluntary and involuntary discharge from hospital against medical advice among people who inject drugs.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2014Article
- Impact of supervised drug consumption services on access to and engagement with care at a palliative and supportive care facility for people living with HIV/AIDS: a qualitative study.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2014Article
- Denial of pain medication by health care providers predicts in-hospital illicit drug use among individuals who use illicit drugs.Pain research & managementArticle
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Among persons who inject drugs (IDU), illicit drug use often occurs in hospitals and contributes to patient expulsion and/or high rates of leaving against medical advice (AMA) when withdrawal is inadequately managed. Resultant disruptions in medical care may increase the likelihood of several harms including drug resistance to antibiotics as well as costly readmissions and increased patient morbidity. In this context, there remains a clear need for the evaluation of harm reduction strategies versus abstinence-based strategies with respect to addressing ongoing issues related to substance use among addicted hospitalized patients. While hospitalization can be used to stabilize addicted patients as they recover from their acute illness and help them to achieve abstinence, patients unable to maintain abstinence should not be penalized for failing to do so at the expense of their health. This article describes harm reduction activities within hospitals and areas for future investigation.
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