Harm Reduction Resources

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This is a report from the National League of Cities entitled “Aligning City, County and State Resources to Address the Opioid Epidemic: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities” which is targeted to municipal governments and other government entities.

This document shares the key findings, emerging priorities, lessons learned, and future strategies for six cities involved in responses to the opioid epidemic.  

Response Approach:
  • Educational
Stakeholders:
  • Community Health Officials
  • Policymakers

This is an academic paper by experts in the field that discusses the need for a comprehensive approach to address the opioid crisis. A multidisciplinarian approach should include the contributions of neuroscience, pharmacology, epidemiology, treatment services, and prevention, which are integrated across multiple settings, including healthcare, criminal justice, education, and social service systems.

Response Approach:
  • Educational
Stakeholders:
  • Addiction Treatment Providers
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Criminal Justice
  • Harm Reduction Specialists
  • Hospitals
  • Law Enforcement
  • Medical
  • Pharmacies
  • Policymakers
Peer-reviewed Article

This is an academic paper that evaluates emerging technologies to test for the presence of fentanyl, including fentanyl test strips, a hand-held Raman Spectrometer, and a desktop Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometer. Fentanyl test strips were found to be the most sensitive and specific and were also able to detect minute amounts of fentanyl in the sample. 

Response Approach:
  • Overdose prevention
Stakeholders:
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Harm Reduction Specialists
  • Policymakers
Peer-reviewed Article

This is a report that summarizes an environmental scan of community-based interventions to prevent opioid overdoses among tribal communities, a population that has been disproportionately affected by the opioid crisis. The document has many helpful links to resources and highlights several tribal nation initiatives. 

Response Approach:
  • Overdose prevention
Stakeholders:
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Harm Reduction Specialists
  • Policymakers

This is a report that provides an update on the Trump Administration's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, which includes progress made on the initial 56 recommendations made by the Commission. 

Response Approach:
  • Educational
Stakeholders:
  • Addiction Treatment Providers
  • Community Health Officials
  • Criminal Justice
  • Policymakers

This guide provides practical approaches to prevent addiction-related stigma. These range from simple efforts, such as writing letters to the editor, to more complex efforts, such as implementing community-based stigma prevention campaigns.

Response Approach:
  • Educational
Stakeholders:
  • Advocates / Peers
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Harm Reduction Specialists
  • Medical
  • Policymakers

This website provides a report and other resources from the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health (ASSPH) that makes research-informed recommendations across the entire continuum of care to address the opioid crisis. 

Response Approach:
  • Comprehensive services
  • Educational
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Overdose prevention
  • Syringe service program / Needle exchange
Stakeholders:
  • Addiction Treatment Providers
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Harm Reduction Specialists
  • Medical
  • Policymakers

This is a database from ASTHO entitled “Substance Misuse and Addiction Resources” that is interactive and has thousands of resources, many on opioids.

This is an academic paper showing that providing take-home naloxone to clients of opioid treatment providers (e.g. methadone clinics) is a good harm reduction strategy to reduce negative outcomes associated with opioid overdose in the community. Of the 395 participants enrolled in this study, 73 participants performed 114 opioid overdose reversals in the community over a one-year period. 

Response Approach:
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Overdose prevention
Stakeholders:
  • Addiction Treatment Providers
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Harm Reduction Specialists
  • Policymakers
Peer-reviewed Article

This is an academic paper that discusses the creation of an innovative tool for the statewide distribution of naloxone to areas that have been most impacted and populations that are high risk. This tool provides states and communities with a data-driven decision-making process for naloxone distribution.

Response Approach:
  • Overdose prevention
Stakeholders:
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Harm Reduction Specialists
  • Policymakers
Peer-reviewed Article

This is an evidence brief from the Veterans Affairs Evidence Synthesis Program (authors Mackay et al.) that provides a review of 44 studies on patient outcomes following long-term opioid dose reduction or discontinuation, which include overdose and suicide. 

Response Approach:
  • Cautious Opioid Prescribing
Stakeholders:
  • Community Health Officials
  • Health Insurers
  • Hospitals
  • Medical

This is a report from the Canadian Centre for Substance Use and Addiction (author Taha) that outlines the standard of service that should be implemented to provide person-centered care to all people experiencing harms from opioids across the continuum of care, including a summary of actions taking place across Canada at multiple levels of government.

Response Approach:
  • Educational
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Overdose prevention
Stakeholders:
  • Addiction Treatment Providers
  • Community Health Officials
  • Medical