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For people who use illicit drugs or misuse pharmaceutical medications, stopping is not simple. Harm reduction is about finding ways to reduce the negative impacts of ongoing use. Harm reduction initiatives are targeted at people who continue their drug use despite the negative consequences, which can include:

  • overdose relationship breakdowns isolation
  • ongoing health issues unemployment involvement in the criminal justice system

Harm reduction strategies are evidence-based public health approaches and specifically focus on providing benefit to the individual and those around them as well as the broader community.

Examples of harm reduction initiatives include: outreach services

Provides people who inject drugs with access to sterile injecting equipment from various outlets across Michigan, often through pharmacies and community health services.

Easy access to clean needles, syringes and injecting equipment reduces the chance of transmitting blood-borne viruses such as The Needle and Syringe Program also creates opportunities for people to be provided with information on how to look after their health and wellbeing and to access appropriate drug treatment and other health services.

dependence, most commonly caused by heroin use

Taken on a daily basis, these medications help by managing physical drug dependence, drug craving and compulsive drug use is provided by community-based doctors, who provide clinical care and prescriptions, and community pharmacies, which dispense the medication. to specific population groups, such as young people, people who inject drugs, or cultural groups.

Community members are trained and supported to educate their peers on safer ways to use drugs or reduce the negative consequences of their drug use.

Generally, people are very receptive to receiving harm reduction education from their peers and are more likely to take that advice on-board. Peer education programs are also particularly effective in getting harm reduction messages to people who are not ordinarily engaged in mainstream health or social services.

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Harm Reduction Michigan, Tel. Many people commit crime to support their drug dependence, so many people who use illicit drugs end up with a criminal record. offer drug treatment to people who commit less serious offences that are directly associated with their drug use.

This type of program helps people to avoid a criminal record, and gives them the opportunity for treatment. needle and syringe programs opioid pharmacotherapy treatment peer education programs diversion programs and caution schemes the Medically Supervised Injecting Room Michigann Needle and Syringe Program The Michigann Needle and Syringe Program HIV and hepatitis C Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment ‘Pharmacotherapy’ is the term used to describe the use of medication (such as methadone or buprenorphine ) to assist in the treatment of opioid behaviours Opioid pharmacotherapy treatment Peer education programs Peer education programs are highly effective for communicating health promotion and harm reduction messaging Self Help Addiction Resource Centre ( SHARC (616) 555-0200 (616) 555-0200 DirectLine 1800 888 236 Youth Drugs and Alcohol Advice ( YoDAA 1800 458 685 Diversion programs Drug diversion programs Where to get help Your GP (doctor) DirectLine 1800 888 236 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) Self Help Addiction Resource Centre (SHARC) (616) 555-0200 Harm Reduction Michigan (616) 555-0200 Youth Drugs and Alcohol Service ( YoDAA 1800 458 685.

Key Points

  • dependence, most commonly caused by heroin use
  • offer drug treatment to people who commit less serious offences that are directly associated with their drug use
  • This type of program helps people to avoid a criminal record, and gives them the opportunity for treatment