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Harm Reduction Services for People Who Use Drugs: Exploring Data Collection, Evidence Gaps, and Research: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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... , said To explore data collection efforts, evidence gaps, and ONDCP's request for this workshop indicates that the research needs for harm reduction for PWUD, the federal government understands the importance of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and taking a public health approach to substance use and Medicine hosted a virtual workshop on January 30–31, addiction. Harm reduction, he explained, describes a 2024, sponsored by the Office of National Drug Control range of interventions -- medications for opioid use Policy (ONDCP)
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... . • Understand how historical and contemporaneous events continue to cause community disruption, leading to vulnerabilities among historically marginalized and minoritized populations, and how to develop culturally appropriate harm reduction services that would best serve these populations (Bluthenthal, Day, Gardner, Heller, Paschane, Young)
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... epidemiology studies can assess policy impact to inform public health approaches. PERSPECTIVES ON THE CURRENT AND HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE OF HARM-REDUCTION SERVICES Daliah Heller (Vital Strategies)
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... evidence supporting their value, but the evidence comes Heller noted the stigma attached to substance use and from only a few locations. Improving epidemiologic the misunderstanding that harm reduction services studies requires measuring exposure more accurately facilitate substance use have complicated efforts to put and building a clearer definition of harm reduction into policies into place and to fund harm reduction programs.
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... harm reduction services rather than abstinence. Frank recommended employing qualitative and ethnographic INTERNATIONAL HARM-REDUCTION PROGRAMS methods and supporting PWUD to develop research skills.
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... Overdose prevention centers -- an evidence- 7 Additional information is available at https://www.cdc.gov/ drugoverdose/od2a/index.html (accessed February 13, 2024)
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... CDC and its federal partners made a strategic decision to shift from a cooperative agreement to a contract to create STRATEGIES FOR HARM REDUCTION RESEARCH, IMPLEMENTATION, AND DATA COLLECTION AT THE LOCAL AND efficiencies and economies of scale for how they deliver STATE LEVEL TA. Baldwin said that CDC and its partner agencies aim Brandon Marshall (Brown University)
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... What local governments need, Kunins said, value of people; committing to community engagement are rapid and hyperlocal data on substance use trends and community building; promoting equity, rights, and and effective harm reduction strategies, along with reparative justice; offering accessible and non-coercive data to support workforce recruitment and retention, to support; and focusing on positive change. The polarizing determine the scale of harm reduction services needed view that harm reduction is the opposite of abstinence to have a population effect on overdose and other or something that someone does when not ready for health outcomes, and to identify the effect of harm treatment or abstinence creates challenges when working reduction policies on reducing overdoses and improving in a community setting.
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... perceived need by many clinicians to protect the fetus or child from the parent, with severe implications for family For Bluthenthal, providing harm reduction services is a separation. Research shows that integrated programs racial equity issue.
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... . 12 Available at https://queertransproject.org/pages/build-a-queer-kits reduction services show that these individuals want (accessed February 13, 2024)
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... behavior change, knowledge diffusion, and engagement with services, and it informs public health surveillance OPTIMIZING RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HARM and strategies, but it requires funding. She called on REDUCTION SERVICES federal agencies to revisit federal drug policies and help Sarah Brothers (Pennsylvania State University)
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... as opposed to stressing only implementing harm reduction-specific CDEs for research abstinence. include identifying topics that would most benefit from CDEs; establishing standards for data collection, SCALING HARM REDUCTION RESEARCH, IMPLEMENTATION, processing, and storage; developing collaborative AND DATA SHARING engagement and partnerships among researchers, Peter Davidson (University of California, San Diego)
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... said that the harm reduction services into the health system should War on Drugs does what it was designed to do: produce happen and will require working with payers to cover March 2024 | 13
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... changing as the drug supply changes and the populations accessing services change. The second dealt with the As a final comment, Leshner said, "For the first time in cost of not providing harm reduction services to the my [30 years]
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... 2024. Harm reduction services for people who use drugs: Exploring data collection, evidence gaps, and research: Proceedings of a workshop -- in brief.


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