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Apr 10, 2024 | Shannon Duffy
NASTAD released a resource highlighting important considerations and promising strategies for health departments to support SSPs...
Apr 08, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The Harm Reduction Coalition has released a new video detailing how harm reduction programs are adapting services during COVID-19.
Although the United States is in the throes of an opioid crisis, methamphetamine and other stimulants are still some of the most...
Mar 13, 2020 | Andrea Grenadier
Higher Ground Harm Reduction, Reynolds Health Strategies, Harm Reduction Coalition, and Vital Strategies released two new fact sheets...
Mar 11, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center (MAAETC) and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center have created a...
Feb 19, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
As part of the Promoting Innovation in State MCH Policymaking (PRISM) project, implemented in partnership with the Association of...
Feb 18, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
Local Health Departments in Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Vermont, and Washington, DC Receive...
Feb 13, 2020 | Theresa Spinner
Opioid use disorder (OUD) and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. In the 1980s, it was realized that human immunodeficiency...
Jan 28, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
NASTAD released a resource highlighting important considerations and promising strategies for health departments to support SSPs during the COVID-19 response. The resource consolidates recommendations and resources for harm reduction recognizing the additional social and economic burdens faced by people who use drugs which are heightened during the global COVID-19 pandemic. View the document.
Although the United States is in the throes of an opioid crisis, methamphetamine and other stimulants are still some of the most commonly used substances in communities across the country. Both opioid and methamphetamine use during pregnancy can lead to neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and an increased risk of negative birth outcomes such as low […]
Higher Ground Harm Reduction, Reynolds Health Strategies, Harm Reduction Coalition, and Vital Strategies released two new fact sheets on harm reduction during the COVID-19 outbreak. The first fact sheet, Syringe Services and Harm Reduction Provider Operations During the COVID-19 Outbreak, is for syringe service and harm reduction providers and includes an overview of COVID-19 and […]
The MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center (MAAETC) and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center have created a six-part interactive webinar series which has been designed to introduce diverse strategies for success in ending the opioid epidemic. Participants will hear from legal, social, medical, and community intervention experts in a strategy-gathering information...
As part of the Promoting Innovation in State MCH Policymaking (PRISM) project, implemented in partnership with the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP), NACCHO is interested in learning about, promoting, and supporting policies and practices that address mental health and substance use disorder within local health department (LHD) Maternal and Child Health (MCH) […]
Local Health Departments in Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Vermont, and Washington, DC Receive Funding Ranging from $40,000 to $150,000.
Opioid use disorder (OUD) and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. In the 1980s, it was realized that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) could be transmitted via injection drug use. Today, infectious diseases related to opioid use disorder include HIV and hepatitis A, B, and C viruses, as well as bacterial, fungal, and other infections. To reduce […]
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