Program Models for Harm Reduction

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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 

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Report with evaluation
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Replicated
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Replicated
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Full continuum of care
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Replicated
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Replicated
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Replicated
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • Overdose prevention
  • Post-overdose response

Addressing barriers to opioid use disorder care in rural northern Michigan through a 32-member collaborative 

Continuum of Care
  • Full continuum of care
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Full continuum of care
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • Educational

A coalition of four rural counties in Northern California made up of both prevention and harm reduction action teams 

Continuum of Care
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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 

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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 

Continuum of Care
  • Full continuum of care
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • Educational

A faith-based organization in rural North Carolina responding to the opioid crisis by delivering harm reduction services

Continuum of Care
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • Outreach
  • Overdose prevention
  • Post-overdose response
  • Syringe service program / Needle exchange

This program uses real-time tracking of overdose clusters to target rapid interventions

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Full continuum of care
  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • 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

Continuum of Care
  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction
Type of Evidence
  • Implemented
Response Approach
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Recovery coaching
  • Syringe service program / Needle exchange