Program Models for Harm Reduction
A statewide program provides community-level support to reduce overdose deaths via coalition building and technical assistance
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Comprehensive services
- Educational
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
An online and mail order service provides access to harm reduction education and supplies including naloxone and syringes
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- COVID / Coronavirus related
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
A mobile outreach van in Boston uses data-driven hotspotting to bring on-demand addiction clinical care and harm reduction services directly to high-risk populations
- Treatment
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Report with evaluation
- COVID / Coronavirus related
- Early Intervention
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Outreach
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
This post-overdose response program in Jacksonville, Florida engages overdose survivors in emergency departments, providing peer support and links to treatment and recovery services
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
An overdose prevention program model in Baltimore that utilizes targeted naloxone distribution, naloxone training, and overdose education
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Educational
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
An Arizona program links overdose survivors with treatment and recovery services
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Crisis intervention
- Family Support
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
An innovative program for preventing overdoses in Canada through the implementation of a supervised injection facility, also known as an overdose prevention site, an option that is not legally available in the United States
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention
- Safe Injection Site
A harm-reduction organization in New York City hosts two overdose prevention centers, the first in the United States
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention
- Safe Injection Site
A statewide overdose prevention system includes a EMS leave-behind naloxone program that has been found to increase naloxone distribution to high-risk populations
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
An emergency department-initiated intervention in Indianapolis grounded in recovery coaching, harm reduction, and linkage to evidence-based treatment
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Replicated
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
A leave-behind naloxone program for first responders in San Francisco increases the availability of this life-saving medication to reverse opioid overdoses
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
A hospital-initiated program in Missouri connects patients with peer recovery services and opioid use disorder treatment
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Comprehensive services
- COVID / Coronavirus related
- Early Intervention
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
An initiative to distribute naloxone to those most likely to witness an opioid overdose across a rural state
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention
A Massachusetts police department serves as an entryway to treatment and recovery from substance use disorder
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Report with evaluation
- Replicated
- Crisis intervention
- Diversion
- Recovery coaching
A community-based outreach and mobile care recovery program in urban Philadelphia serves people with addictive disorders
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Outreach
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
A comprehensive program model, including harm reduction and treatment, that focuses on a chronically homeless population that is disproportionately affected by opioid use disorder
- Treatment
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Comprehensive services
- COVID / Coronavirus related
- Educational
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
A statewide community drug checking program in Massachusetts that gathers timely information on the illicit drug supply to inform an effective response to the opioid crisis
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention
A community-based organization engaged in naloxone training and distribution as part of a larger harm reduction initiative
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Educational
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
Low-threshold access to buprenorphine that is co-located in a syringe service program for a predominantly urban, unstably housed population in Seattle, Washington
- Treatment
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
Based in Rhode Island, this non-profit company ships overdose rescue kits and naloxone throughout the United States
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention