Program Models for Harm Reduction
Addressing barriers to opioid use disorder care in rural northern Michigan through a 32-member collaborative
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Comprehensive services
- Early Intervention
- Educational
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
- Recovery coaching
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
A two-pronged outreach program in a suburb of Boston that provides active outreach to people who use drugs and a post-overdose response in addition to increasing community education and awareness
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Educational
- Outreach
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
A community-based organization in Philadelphia that uses a Housing First model to treat co-occurring chronic homelessness and opioid use disorder
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Comprehensive services
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Outreach
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
A faith-based organization delivering a mobile syringe service program across 12 counties in upstate New York
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Comprehensive services
- Educational
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
A statewide public awareness campaign in Colorado to reduce stigma for individuals struggling with opioid use disorder through education and stories from people in recovery
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Educational
A coalition of four rural counties in Northern California made up of both prevention and harm reduction action teams
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Cautious Opioid Prescribing
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
Collaboration between law enforcement and peer coaches to provide post-overdose services grounded in harm reduction
- Treatment
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Crisis intervention
- Educational
- Outreach
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
A cross-sector community coalition established to comprehensively address the opioid crisis in a county outside of San Francisco
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Cautious Opioid Prescribing
- Educational
- Family Support
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
A statewide digital media campaign in Pennsylvania to reduce the stigma of opioid use disorder
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Educational
A faith-based organization in rural North Carolina responding to the opioid crisis by delivering harm reduction services
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Outreach
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
This program uses real-time tracking of overdose clusters to target rapid interventions
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Post-overdose response
An exhibit at the Indiana State Museum aiming to reduce stigma by using a multidisciplinary approach to educate the general public about the opioid crisis
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Educational
A connector to services and a safe place, provided by the Boston Public Health Commission, in a part of the city that has been disproportionately affected by the opioid crisis
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Comprehensive services
- Early Intervention
- Outreach
- Overdose prevention
Low threshold, same-day buprenorphine treatment delivered through a clinic in Washington that is co-located with a syringe service program
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Recovery coaching
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
A state initiative in Massachusetts that aims to build a strong and competent workforce to address substance use and addiction
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Housing, Education, and Employment
A collaboration of multiple stakeholders to address the opioid crisis in rural Ohio counties
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Comprehensive services
- COVID / Coronavirus related
- Early Intervention
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
A training tool for available to community pharmacists in four states to reduce opioid-related harms by improving access to and education for naloxone, buprenorphine, and syringes
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Cautious Opioid Prescribing
- Educational
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
A wide array of stakeholders forming a consortium that plays a leading role in shaping Colorado's response to the opioid crisis
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Cautious Opioid Prescribing
- Educational
- Family Support
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
This Minnesota program conducts outreach to overdose survivors with a team comprised of peer support specialists and social workers
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Outreach
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
A syringe service program operating in South Carolina, a state with ambiguous laws toward this harm reduction service
- Harm Reduction
- Implemented
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange