Topic: harm reduction
In the News: Do Safe Injection Sites Work?
That’s not a large percent of the user population, but it’s among the sickest. That along might be enough to justify the investment; I’m sure a number of lives have been saved along the way.
Topics: harm reduction, opioids
Needle Exchange Backlash
Nonetheless, in most instances it’s an a priori resistance rooted in fear, rather than legitimate objections.
Topics: harm reduction, recovery-friendly, stigma
Naltrexone versus Opioids
Not surprisingly, the vast majority of patients who drop out or otherwise leave maintenance programs return to heroin at rates of 80% or higher.
Topics: addiction medications, harm reduction, MAT, therapies and tools
In the News: Harm Reduction in West Virginia
He compares the patients he treats, who are often homeless, to “outcasts” and ‘lepers”, who have been “derided, despised, and marginalized.”
Topics: harm reduction, opioids
Methadone Maintenance and Crime
So even if drug use decreases, and clients continue on methadone, they don’t necessarily make the other much-desired (by society) changes — such as giving up crime.
Topics: addiction medications, harm reduction, MAT, opioids, treatment models
Medication Assisted Treatment
In terms of a comfortable detox, Suboxone was a success. In terms of a return to opiate use, it was a failure.
Topics: addiction medications, harm reduction, MAT, treatment models
HIV Mini-Epidemic
It makes perfect sense to do something that’s been shown to be effective at limiting one very important adverse consequence to the individual and society
Topics: consequences, epidemiology, harm reduction, opioids
Reducing Harm vs… Well, Reducing Harm
My longstanding rule is to design your program to treat your population, not some idealized group of subjects who did well in a research setting with a significantly different structure.
Topics: abstinence, harm reduction, program development, treatment models
