Drug Use and Harm Reduction
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California Supervised Injection Bill Stalls, but San Francisco Moves Forward
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- Category: Drug Use and Harm Reduction
- Published on Thursday, 02 November 2017 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
San Francisco would be best served by having several supervised injection sites accompanied by social services for people who use drugs, according to a report from a city task force set up to study the issue.
HR17: Heroin Combined with Fentanyl Is Driving Overdose Crisis in U.S.
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- Category: Drug Use and Harm Reduction
- Published on Friday, 30 June 2017 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
New sources of heroin and increasing adulteration with fentanyl and other stronger analogs are contributing to a growing epidemic of opioid overdose deaths in several regions of the U.S., researchers reported at the 25th Harm Reduction International Conference last month in Montreal.
PAS 2017: New Approaches Help Babies with Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome
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- Category: Drug Use and Harm Reduction
- Published on Wednesday, 31 May 2017 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Letting mothers and babies room together and using methadone or buprenorphine instead of morphine to manage withdrawal symptoms leads to shorter stays and other benefits for newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), according to several presentations at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting this month in San Francisco.
HR17: People May Use Cannabis and Drug Cocktails as a Form of Harm Reduction
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- Category: Drug Use and Harm Reduction
- Published on Friday, 30 June 2017 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
People who use drugs have come up with innovative strategies that help them reduce harm, including using marijuana to decrease crack use and mixing heroin with methamphetamine to moderate the effects of meth or prolong the duration of heroin, according to presentations at the 25th Harm Reduction International Conference last month in Montreal.
Coverage of the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting
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- Category: HIV Treatment
- Published on Wednesday, 31 May 2017 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
HIVandHepatitis.com coverage of the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, May 6-9, 2017, in San Francisco.
- Many Doctors Wary of Providing PrEP for Young Patients
- Sofosbuvir Plus Ribavirin Cures Teens with Genotype 2 or 3 Hepatitis C
- Children on Immunosuppressive Therapy May Lose Hepatitis B Vaccine Protection
- Vaccine Reduces Human Papillomavirus Prevalence Among Young Women
- New Approaches Help Babies with Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome
HR17: Combining Drug Addiction Treatment and Perinatal HIV Prevention Leads to Good Outcomes
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- Category: Pregnancy & HIV MTCT
- Published on Wednesday, 31 May 2017 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
An integrated program offering medication-assisted drug addiction treatment and services aimed at preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission led to improved outcomes for opioid-dependent HIV-positive mothers and their babies, according to a presentation at the 25th Harm Reduction International Conference this month in Montreal.
Coverage of the 2017 Harm Reduction International Conference
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- Category: Drug Use and Harm Reduction
- Published on Wednesday, 31 May 2017 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
HIVandHepatitis.com coverage of the 2017 Harm Reduction International Conference, May 14-17, 2017, in Montreal.
HR17: Indonesian Buyers Club Helps People Obtain Generic Hepatitis C Treatment
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- Category: HCV Treatment
- Published on Wednesday, 31 May 2017 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
A community-led buyers club in Indonesia has helped more than 100 people get generic direct-acting antiviral drugs to treat hepatitis C and is seeing a high cure rate, according to a presentation at the 25th Harm Reduction International Conference this month in Montreal.
HR17: Drug Checking Reveals High Levels of Fentanyl Contamination
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- Category: Drug Use and Harm Reduction
- Published on Tuesday, 16 May 2017 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
A pilot project to check the purity of drugs at Vancouver's Insite safe injection facility found that around 80% of tested samples contained fentanyl, and people who learned their drugs were contaminated were more likely to reduce their doses and less likely to overdose, researchers reported at the 25th Harm Reduction International Conference this week in Montreal.
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- Hydromorphone as Effective as Pharmaceutical Heroin for Managing Opioid Dependence
- Drug Overdoses Rising, Many Users Have No Access to Clean Needle Programs
- NHPC 2015: U.S. Syringe Funding Ban Impedes HIV and Hepatitis C Prevention
- IHRC 2015: Community-based Drug Projects Provide an Alternative to Compulsory Detention in Asia
- IHRC 2015: Why Is Injecting Equipment Reused? Drug Users Do Their Own Research to Find Out
- IHRC 2015: Needle Exchanges Must Meet Needs of People Who Inject Steroids and Image-enhancing Drugs
- IHRC 2015: Retreat of International Donors, National Government Neglect Threaten Harm Reduction Services
- AIDS 2012: Syringe Exchange Expansion in U.S. Would be Cost-saving
- New Report Finds Global Drug War Fuels HIV Pandemic
- Federal Syringe Access Policy: Where Are We Now?
- Congress Reinstates Federal Funding Ban on Needle Exchange
- California Governor Signs Syringe Purchase and Needle Exchange Bills
- House Democrats Propose Repeal of Funding Ban on Needle Exchange Programs
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