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Butte-Glenn Opioid Safety Coalition Newsletter

CDPH opioid related data

https://skylab.cdph.ca.gov/ODdash/

Research Library

Have some free time? Check out these articles about the field.

Harm reduction

Des Jarlais, D.C. Harm reduction in the USA: the research perspective and an archive to David Purchase. Harm Reduct J 14, 51 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-017-0178-6
Harm reduction: An approach to reducing risky health behaviours in adolescents. (2008). Paediatrics & child health, 13(1), 53–60. https://doi.org/10.1093/pch/13.1.53
Thakarar, K., Kohut, M., Hutchinson, R. et al. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who inject drugs accessing harm reduction services in a rural American state. Harm Reduct J 19, 80 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00660-2
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(22)00088-6/fulltext
Marx, M. A., Crape, B., Brookmeyer, R. S., Junge, B., Latkin, C., Vlahov, D., & Strathdee, S. A. (2000). Trends in crime and the introduction of a needle exchange program. American Journal of Public Health, 90(12), 1933-1936. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.90.12.1933

Prevention methods
Intervention methods
Methamphetamine
Alcohol
Tobacco
Opioid related overdose

Keane, C., Egan, J. E., & Hawk, M. (2018). Effects of naloxone distribution to likely bystanders: Results of an agent-based model. The International journal on drug policy, 55, 61–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.02.008

Prescribing practices
Pain management
Pharmacy related
Medication assisted treatment
Lived experience

Book recommendations

Saving Our Own Lives – Shira Hassan
Dreamland – Sam Quinones
Undoing Drugs - Maria Szalavitz