Promoting Health, Safety and Equity
Promoting Health, Safety and Equity
Harm Reduction
What is Harm Reduction?
"Harm reduction is a practical and transformative approach that incorporates community-driven public health strategies — including prevention, risk reduction, and health promotion — to empower people who use drugs (and their families) with the choice to live healthy, self-directed, and purpose-filled lives. Harm reduction centers the lived and living experience of people who use drugs, especially those in underserved communities, in these strategies and the practices that flow from them." -SAMHSA
The Continuum of overdose risk (COR)
Park et al. (2020) conducted a literature review of opioids and created a framework to show what influences overdose, the difference between drug use and addiction, and factors (e.g., social determinants of health) that escalate/de-escalate progression on the staircase of overdose risk.