Pregnancy, Drugs, and Harm Reduction

A Plea for Harm Reduction Policing Involving People Who Use Drugs

Women and Substance Abuse Problems

HEALTH ISSUES: Differences exist in the prevalence and physical health impacts of problem substance use among men and women. These differences are also found in the mental health and trauma events related to substance use, barriers to treatment and harm-reduction services and the impact of substance use on pregnancy and parenting. Data from the 2000-2001 Canadian Community Health Survey and Can...

Another frontier for harm reduction: contraceptive needs of females who inject drugs in Estonia, a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND Despite increasing contraceptive availability, unintended pregnancy remains a global problem. Developing strategies to reverse this trend and increasing occurrence of withdrawal syndrome among newborn children of females currently injecting drugs warrants special attention. The knowledge base on the uptake of effective contraception among females who inject drugs (FWID) is scant. We ...

Scale-up of a comprehensive harm reduction programme for people injecting opioids: lessons from north-eastern India.

PROBLEM Harm reduction packages for people who inject illicit drugs, including those infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are cost-effective but have not been scaled up globally. In the north-eastern Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland, the epidemic of HIV infection is driven by the injection of illicit drugs, especially opioids. These states needed to scale up harm reduction pro...

Implementation and evaluation of a harm-reduction model for clinical care of substance using pregnant women

BACKGROUND Methamphetamine (MA) use during pregnancy is associated with many pregnancy complications, including preterm birth, small for gestational age, preeclampsia, and abruption. Hawaii has lead the nation in MA use for many years, yet prior to 2007, did not have a comprehensive plan to care for pregnant substance-using women. In 2006, the Hawaii State Legislature funded a pilot perinatal a...