Global harm reduction update published in The Lancet
April 2023
Citation:
Samantha Colledge-Frisby, Sophie Ottaviano, Paige Webb, Jason Grebely, Alice Wheeler, Evan B Cunningham, Behzad Hajarizadeh, Janni Leung, Amy Peacock, Peter Vickerman, Michael Farrell, Gregory J Dore, Matthew Hickman, Louisa Degenhardt, Global coverage of interventions to prevent and manage drug-related harms among people who inject drugs: a systematic review, The Lancet Global Health, Volume 11, Issue 5, 2023,Pages e673-e683, ISSN 2214-109X, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00058-X.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X2300058X)
A new systematic review updating approaches to preventing and managing harms among people who inject drugs (PWID) was published in The Lancet Global Health.
Authored by a team of Australian and UK researchers, with NDRI Research Fellow Dr Sam Colledge-Frisby as lead author, the review updated estimates from 2017 research examining global coverage of harm reduction services that target PWID, including needle and syringe exchange programs, opioid agonist treatment, take-home naloxone programs, supervised consumption facilities, and drug checking services.
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