RESEARCH FINDINGS

Research Findings

Intravenous Drug Users & Syringe Exchange Programs:  Important Research for Your Community

Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) summary of research showing syringe exchange programs:  (1) lower the risk of HIV/AIDS; (2) foster change in IDU communities; (3) show large financial benefits.

Syringe Exchange Research Update

This overview and annotated bibliography published by the Harm Reduction Coalition summarizes key recent research on syringe exchange programs in the United States and related data on injection drug users, HIV, and hepatitis C published after 2006.A Review of the Evidence-base for Harm Reduction Approaches to Drug Use
This monograph by Neil Hunt of Britain’s Forward Thinking on Drugs concludes that: “The HIV/AIDS epidemic provided the need and momentum for the consolidation, refocusing and reinvigoration of a number of existing interventions as well as the development of new ones. The harm reduction movement has provided an important vehicle for this response and has matured to encompass the breadth of drug related harms such as overdose, viral hepatitis, the impact of drug use on communities and the impact of criminalisation on drug users.”