Search Results - subject:"Harm reduction"

Investigating the complexity of naloxone distribution : which policies matter for pharmacies and potential recipients

Smart, Rosanna; Powell, David; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo; … - In: Journal of health economics 97 (2024), pp. 1-19

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Harm reduction: When does it improve health, and when does it backfire?

Cawley, John H.; Dragone, Davide - 2023

Some harm reduction strategies encourage individuals to switch from a harmful addictive good to a less harmful … harm reduction method, and it demonstrates when each side is correct, depending on the enjoyableness of the harm reduction … method, the addictiveness of the harm reduction method, and the substitutability with the original addictive good. …

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Estimation of the global number of vapers: 82 million worldwide in 2021

Jerzyński, Tomasz; Stimson, Gerry V. - In: Drugs, Habits and Social Policy 24 (2023) 2, pp. 91-103

Purpose Nicotine is consumed by one in five of the global adult population, mostly by smoking tobacco cigarettes. Modern electronic cigarettes came onto the market from around 2007 and have considerable potential to improve population health by displacing tobacco smoking. The purpose of this...

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The effect of untargeted naloxone distribution on opioid overdose outcomes

Dowd, William N. - In: Health economics 32 (2023) 12, pp. 2801-2818

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Harm reduction : when does it improve health, and when does it backfire?

Cawley, John H.; Dragone, Davide - 2023

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Drug use patterns, harm reduction strategies and use of drug checking services in boom festival patrons

Valente, Helena; Martins, Daniel; Pinto, Marta; … - In: Drugs, Habits and Social Policy 23 (2022) 3, pp. 232-243

educated people that already apply several harm reduction strategies. Actions should be taken to promote service accessibility …

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A distributed model to expand the reach of drug checking

Wallace, Bruce; Gozdzialski, Lea; Qbaich, Abdelhakim; … - In: Drugs, Habits and Social Policy 23 (2022) 3, pp. 220-231

technicians at multiple sites while still providing point-of-care results with local harm reduction engagement and access to … checking (e.g. interpreting spectra) for harm reduction workers. Moreover, its real-time reporting capability keeps communities …

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Substance residue analysis as an alternative to drug checking? Traces from drug paraphernalia as a source for laboratory analysis

Kaskela, Teemu; Järvelin, Ronja; Nahkuri, Janne; … - In: Drugs, Habits and Social Policy 23 (2022) 3, pp. 277-288

Purpose Drug checking is a popular method to reduce risks of drug use. In many countries, including Finland, legislation restricts implementing drug checking. The aim of this study was to explore whether some benefits of drug checking could be achieved by substance residue analysis....

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Research handbook on international drug policy

Stothard, Blaine - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 3 (2021) 2, pp. 224-228

This volume is part of the response to the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on international drug policy and the emergence of analysis of international drug policy in academic literature. Editors David Bewley-Taylor and Khalid Tinasti, both respected authors in their own right,...

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The elusive search for rights-centred public health approaches to drug policy : a comment

Csete, Joanne - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 2 (2020) 1, pp. 1-9

While it is common for United Nations member states in international meetings to espouse ‘public health approaches’ to drug policy, actual policies appear not to have caught up with this rhetoric. There is a lingering over-emphasis in narcotic drug policies on policing and incarceration at...

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