People who inject drugs can ‘give bacteria the boot’ with new SDF booklet  SDF have published a new resource to highlight good hygiene practices for people who inject drugs in order to prevent the spread of bacteria and viruses. (SDF – Scottis…

Navigating environmental constraints to injection preparation: the use of saliva and other alternatives to sterile water among unstably housed PWID in London. Harris, M., Scott, J., Hope, V. et al.  Harm Reduct J 17, 24 (2020). https://doi.or…

Gender-based vulnerability in women who inject drugs in a harm reduction setting. Valencia J, Alvaro-Meca A, Troya J, Gutiérrez J, Ramón C, Rodríguez A, et al. (2020)  PLoS ONE 15(3): e0230886. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230886 https://jo…

Safer Use - die goldenen Regeln für den risikominimierten Cannabisgenuss Die Münchener DHV-Ortsgruppe hat einen Leitfaden für risikominimierten Genussmittelkonsum entwickelt, den wir euch an dieser Stelle nicht vorenthalten möchten. Er fasst golden…

How Former Soviet Countries Are Suppressing Harm Reduction “Propaganda” Lawmakers in the former Soviet Union are seeking to impose harsher criminal penalties for drug-related “propaganda,” especially online. Their efforts are ostensibly supposed to…

Does a “Dialectical Abstinence” Program Qualify as Harm Reduction? I first heard the term “dialectical abstinence” in the summer of 2019, several weeks into an intensive outpatient program (IoP) for opioid use disorder offered in South Florida by M…