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Harm Reduction With Intravenous Drugs
- The Dogwood Center (Regularly Updated)
This Web site focuses on injection-related HIV.
- The Legality of Prescribing and Dispensing Sterile Injection Equipment to IDUs to Prevent Disease Transmission (Regularly Updated)
A state-by-state guide.
From Temple University Law School
- IDU Risk Reduction Fact Sheet
To read PDF, click here
From U.S. National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
- Syringe Disinfection for Injection Drug Users (November 20, 2006)
A question-and-answer-style fact sheet aimed at education and outreach workers, but of use to drug users as well.
To read PDF, click here
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- New York Times Urges Harm Reduction in U.S. Prisons (July 22, 2005)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- The Silver Van: Talking to People in Chicago's Blood Alley (July/August 2005)
A reporter spends a day at a mobile harm reduction center, where injection drug users can find clean needles and other health aid.
To read PDF, click here
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- New York: Help for the At-Risk; Volunteers Fight HIV With Free Needles, Condoms (May 26, 2004)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Hepatitis C: For Injection Drug Users (PDF) (2003)
A brochure specifically for people who use injection drugs; provides information about HCV infection risks, prevention, screening and diagnosis.
From Harm Reduction Coalition
- Preventing Blood-Borne Infections Through Pharmacy Syringe Sales and Safe Community Syringe Disposal (PDF) (November/December 2002)
Full issue devoted to syringe access issues.
In Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association
- New Attitudes & Strategies: A Comprehensive Approach to Preventing Blood-Borne Infections Among IDUs (October 3, 2002)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- California: Davis Vetoes Bill Allowing Pharmacies to Sell Hypodermic Needles (October 1, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Syringe Prescription Study Yields Unexpected Bonus: Helping Long-Time Users Quit Drugs (May 11, 2001)
To read PDF, click here
In AIDS Treatment News, from AIDS Treatment News
- H Is for Heroin (January 1, 2001)
From Harm Reduction Coalition
- A Comprehensive Approach: Preventing Blood-Borne Infections Among Injection Drug Users (December 2000)
To read PDF, click here
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Nuns to Run First Heroin Injecting Room in Australia (August 14, 1999)
In British Medical Journal
- HIV Prevention Among Drug Users: A Resource Book for Community Planners & Program Managers (June 1997)
To read PDF, click here
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Counseling Chemically Dependent People with HIV Illness (1995)
In The Second Decade of AIDS: A Mental Health Practice Handbook, from Hatherleigh Press
- Harm Reduction: Safer Injection Techniques for Intravenous Drug Users (Various dates)
From Harm Reduction Coalition
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