Program Models for Harm Reduction

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A mobile outreach van in Boston uses data-driven hotspotting to bring on-demand addiction clinical care and harm reduction services directly to high-risk populations

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
  • Report with evaluation
Response Approach
  • COVID / Coronavirus related
  • Early Intervention
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Outreach
  • Overdose prevention
  • Syringe service program / Needle exchange

This post-overdose response program in Jacksonville, Florida engages overdose survivors in emergency departments, providing peer support and links to treatment and recovery services

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Overdose prevention
  • Post-overdose response
  • Recovery coaching

An overdose prevention program model in Baltimore that utilizes targeted naloxone distribution, naloxone training, and overdose education

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Educational
  • Overdose prevention
  • Syringe service program / Needle exchange

An Arizona program links overdose survivors with treatment and recovery services

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Crisis intervention
  • Family Support
  • Post-overdose response
  • Recovery coaching

An innovative program for preventing overdoses in Canada through the implementation of a supervised injection facility, also known as an overdose prevention site, an option that is not legally available in the United States

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Overdose prevention
  • Safe Injection Site

A harm-reduction organization in New York City hosts two overdose prevention centers, the first in the United States

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Overdose prevention
  • Safe Injection Site

An emergency department-initiated intervention in Indianapolis grounded in recovery coaching, harm reduction, and linkage to evidence-based treatment

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
  • Replicated
Response Approach
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Overdose prevention
  • Post-overdose response
  • Recovery coaching

A leave-behind naloxone program for first responders in San Francisco increases the availability of this life-saving medication to reverse opioid overdoses

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Overdose prevention
  • Post-overdose response

A hospital-initiated program in Missouri connects patients with peer recovery services and opioid use disorder treatment

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Comprehensive services
  • COVID / Coronavirus related
  • Early Intervention
  • Housing, Education, and Employment
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Post-overdose response
  • Recovery coaching

An initiative to distribute naloxone to those most likely to witness an opioid overdose across a rural state

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Overdose prevention

A Massachusetts police department serves as an entryway to treatment and recovery from substance use disorder

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
  • Report with evaluation
  • Replicated
Response Approach
  • Crisis intervention
  • Diversion
  • Recovery coaching

A community-based outreach and mobile care recovery program in urban Philadelphia serves people with addictive disorders

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Outreach
  • Post-overdose response
  • Recovery coaching

A comprehensive program model, including harm reduction and treatment, that focuses on a chronically homeless population that is disproportionately affected by opioid use disorder

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Comprehensive services
  • COVID / Coronavirus related
  • Educational
  • Housing, Education, and Employment
  • Overdose prevention
  • Syringe service program / Needle exchange

A statewide community drug checking program in Massachusetts that gathers timely information on the illicit drug supply to inform an effective response to the opioid crisis 

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Overdose prevention

A community-based organization engaged in naloxone training and distribution as part of a larger harm reduction initiative

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Educational
  • Overdose prevention
  • Syringe service program / Needle exchange

Low-threshold access to buprenorphine that is co-located in a syringe service program for a predominantly urban, unstably housed population in Seattle, Washington

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Syringe service program / Needle exchange

Based in Rhode Island, this non-profit company ships overdose rescue kits and naloxone throughout the United States

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
Response Approach
  • Overdose prevention

An in-class, one-hour prevention program for grades 6-12 on the risks of using prescription and illicit opioids

Continuum of Care
  • Prevention
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
  • Report with evaluation
  • Replicated
Response Approach
  • Early Intervention
  • Educational
  • Overdose prevention

An opioid urgent care center located in Boston Medical Center to quickly initiate medications for opioid use disorder

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
  • Report with evaluation
Response Approach
  • Comprehensive services
  • Early Intervention
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Recovery coaching

An innovative program model in New Hampshire that uses fire departments as an access point to treatment and other services 

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Peer-reviewed
  • Report with evaluation
  • Replicated
Response Approach
  • Crisis intervention
  • Early Intervention