Public Perception of Harm Reduction Interventions
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The OHTN Rapid Response Service offers HIV/AIDS programs and services in Ontario quick access to research evidence to help inform decision making, service delivery and advocacy. In response to a question from the field, the Rapid Response Team reviews the scientific and grey literature, consults with experts, and prepares a brief fact sheet summarizing the current evidence and its implications for policy and practice.
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Attitudes toward harm reduction and abstinence-only approaches to alcohol misuse among Alaskan college students
BACKGROUND Harm reduction is a public health approach that aims to guide hazardous drinkers to change unsafe drinking and minimize alcohol-related consequences without requiring abstinence. In contrast, abstinence-based interventions are designed for people with more severe alcohol problems and they aim to eliminate consequences via complete abstinence from alcohol. Current best practices for t...
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BACKGROUND The Mexico-U.S. border region is experiencing rising rates of blood-borne infections among injection drug users (IDUs), emphasizing the need for harm reduction interventions. METHODS We assessed the religious and cultural factors affecting the acceptability and feasibility of three harm reduction interventions--Needle exchange programs (NEPs), syringe vending machines, and safer in...
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BACKGROUND One key structural dimension in the distribution of drug-related harm associated with injecting drug use is the injecting environment. Epidemiological evidence associates elevated blood-borne viral risk with injecting in 'public' and 'semipublic' environments. Yet the quality of evidence on public injecting and related viral risk is variable, and is lacking in many countries such as ...
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Historically, the response of the Vietnamese government to illicit drug use and HIV has been slow and ineffective. However, 2006 saw the government formally endorse harm reduction interventions. This paper examines the views of senior key informants inside Vietnam on the development of an advocacy strategy for harm reduction. Twenty-nine informants were interviewed across public health, public ...
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In this study, a systematic examination of evidences on the efficacy of preventive interventions, early interventions, harm reduction interventions, and treatment of tobacco and illegal drugs (cannabis, opioid, amphetamine, and cocaine) abuse in adolescents was carried out. Tax levies, general public prohibition, advertisement limitations, are useful tools to reduce tobacco use, but are of ...
متن کاملChapter 1 Harm reduction and the mainstream
Harm reduction encompasses interventions, programmes and policies that seek to reduce the health, social and economic harms of drug use to individuals, communities and societies. We envisage harm reduction as a ‘combination intervention’, made up of a package of interventions tailored to local setting and need, which give primary emphasis to reducing the harms of drug use. We note the enhanced ...
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