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Access, Harm Reduction, Overdose Prevention and Education, commonly referred to as AHOPE Boston or AHOPE Needle Exchange, and formerly called Addicts Health Opportunity Prevention Education, is a needle exchange and public health initiative of the Boston Public Health Commission . AHOPE primarily serves homeless people with physical and mental ...
A needle and syringe programme ( NSP ), also known as needle exchange program ( NEP ), is a social service that allows injecting drug users (IDUs) to obtain clean and unused hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost. It is based on the philosophy of harm reduction that attempts to reduce the risk factors for blood ...
Emergency medicine, Infectious disease. A needlestick injury is the penetration of the skin by a hypodermic needle or other sharp object that has been in contact with blood, tissue or other body fluids before the exposure. [1] Even though the acute physiological effects of a needlestick injury are generally negligible, these injuries can lead ...
A two-year pilot program will move a needle exchange clinic indoors for the first time in 25 years. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
But with the shiny, new vending machines unboxed and waiting nearby at the needle exchange’s office at South 37th Street and Pacific Avenue, LaKosky — a longtime public health professional who ...
The Tacoma Needle Exchange always has been cutting edge. In fact, the nonprofit — which traces its origins back nearly 35 years to the late Dave Purchase, who first set up a television tray and ...
Harm reduction. Needle exchange programs provide people who inject substances with new needles and injection equipment to reduce the harm (e.g., HIV infection) from needle drug use. Drug paraphernalia available from a harm reduction NGO at a mobile supervised injection site in Berlin, Germany. Harm reduction, or harm minimization, refers to a ...
Supervised injection site. Supervised injection sites ( SIS) [1] [2] [3] or drug consumption rooms ( DCRs) are a health and social response to drug-related problems. They are fixed or mobile spaces where people who use drugs are provided with sterile drug use equipment and can use illicit drugs under the supervision of trained staff.