Program Models for Harm Reduction
A promising overdose prevention model in southern California that distributes naloxone to at-risk populations and engages vital stakeholders that represent sectors that should be carrying naloxone
- Harm Reduction
- Report with evaluation
- Educational
- Overdose prevention
A clinic in Kentucky that offers timely treatment of underlying opioid use disorder when patients access the healthcare system for opioid-related consequences
- Treatment
- Harm Reduction
- Replicated
- Implemented
- Early Intervention
- Educational
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
Innovative program in New Hampshire that trains first responders to administer naloxone and provides outreach to individuals with nonfatal opioid overdoses
- Treatment
- Harm Reduction
- Replicated
- Implemented
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
A rural multi-agency coordination group in Washington state that responds to the local opioid crisis like a natural disaster
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Replicated
- Implemented
- Comprehensive services
- Early Intervention
- Educational
- Family Support
- Overdose prevention
Mobile outreach to hard-to-reach populations in New Jersey offering critical support for persons struggling with addiction
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Replicated
- Implemented
- Educational
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Outreach
- Overdose prevention
This statewide helpline in Massachusetts remotely monitors people who use drugs in real time to identify and respond to overdoses
- Harm Reduction
- Replicated
- Implemented
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
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