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The Significance of Harm Reduction as a Social and Health Care Intervention for Injecting Drug Users: An Exploratory Study of a Needle Exchange Program in Fresno, California.
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- "People are going to do drugs:" harm reduction as a strategy for survivors of sex trafficking who use substances.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
- A systematic review of macro-, meso, and micro-level harm reduction interventions addressing the U.S. opioid overdose epidemic.Drugs (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Preference for Abstinence-Based Recovery and Public Stigma Toward Substance Use.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Community Support for Harm Reduction and Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder.Journal of community health · 2024Article
- People with lived and living experience of methamphetamine use and admission to hospital: what harm reduction do they suggest needs to be addressed?Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2023Article
- Assessing Reuse of Hypodermic Needles in Mice by means of Digital Imaging, Photomicrography, Bacterial Culture, Analysis of Nest Building, and Animal Vocalization.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2023Article
- Syringe Services Programs' Role in Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S.: Why We Cannot Do It Without Them.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Students as effective harm reductionists and needle exchange organizers.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2017Article
- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in East Tennessee: Characteristics and Risk Factors among Mothers and Infants in One Area of Appalachia.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2017Article
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Abstract
Infectious disease remains a significant social and health concern in the United States. Preventing more people from contracting HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C (HCV), requires a complex understanding of the interconnection between the biomedical and social dimensions of infectious disease. Opiate addiction in the US has skyrocketed in recent years. Preventing more cases of HIV/AIDS and HCV will require dealing with the social determinants of health. Needle exchange programs (NEPs) are based on a harm reduction approach that seeks to minimize the risk of infection and damage to the user and community. This article presents an exploratory small-scale quantitative study of the injection drug using habits of a group of injection drug users (IDUs) at a needle exchange program in Fresno, California. Respondents reported significant decreases in high risk IDU behaviors, including sharing of needles and to a lesser extent re-using of needles. They also reported frequent use of clean paraphernalia. Greater collaboration between social and health outreach professionals at NEPs could provide important frontline assistance to people excluded from mainstream office-based services and enhance efforts to reduce HIV/AIDS or HCV infection.
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