What We Have Learned from Rhode Island’s Harm Reduction Vending Machines
Evaluation of the first two years of Rhode Island’s harm reduction vending machines (HRVMs) and their role alongside in-person harm reduction services.
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The Naloxone Initiative: Educating High Schoolers to Save Lives
In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, intern Karsen DeWeese speaks with Suhanee Mitragotri, a senior at Harvard College and co-founder of the Naloxone Education Initiative, about the role that harm reduction programs like hers have in public health.
Read morePublic Health and Public Safety Partnerships: Addressing the Overdose Crisis in Maine
Innovative public health and public safety collaborations in Maine link people who use drugs (PWUD), their friends and families to essential resources on the journey from active use to recovery.
Read moreInfographic: Prescriber Perceptions of an Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Program
A new article published in the July 2018 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management & Practice looks at increased efforts to tackle the opioid epidemic by developing more overdose education and naloxone distribution (ONED) programs. Author Alyssa Peckham and colleagues survey prescribers’ attitudes and comfort levels dispensing naloxone, and find that barriers to OEND implementation continue to exist as not all
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