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The machines provide free, easily accessible life-saving tools and disease prevention supplies, such as naloxone, fentanyl test strips, at-home COVID-19 test kits and male and female condoms.
FTS are an affordable product available as small paper strips that can detect the presence of fentanyl. [5] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determined synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, to be the main culprit in increased U.S. opioid-related deaths. [6] In 2017, 38.9% of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. involved fentanyl. [7]
Harm reduction reduces the risks associated with drug use, including overdose and the spread of infectious diseases, by providing free syringe service programs, overdose prevention sites, fentanyl ...
While Martins said it’s important to test for fentanyl “as a harm reduction practice before someone uses drugs,” she added that it will require a multi-pronged approach to combat the crisis.
Low-threshold treatment programs are harm reduction-based health care centers targeted towards people who use substances. [1] " Low-threshold" programs are programs that make minimal demands on the patient, offering services without attempting to control their intake of drugs, and providing counselling only if requested.
NEXT (Needle EXchange Technology) Harm Reduction is an American nonprofit that sends naloxone, sterile syringes, and other harm reduction supplies through the mail. [1] It is based in the state of New York but serves clients throughout the country. [1] It is the first formal mail-delivered harm reduction service in the US. [2]
They state that harm reduction should not lead to less efforts to reduce drug demand. [111] Pope Benedict XVI criticised harm reduction policies with regards to HIV/AIDS, saying that it was "a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems". [112]
Scorched foil, used to smoke illicit fentanyl pills, litters the streets where drug deals and drug use happen in broad daylight. Will, who is homeless and says he’s an addict, holds a strip of ...