Harm Reduction Journal

Article	Citations
Egocentric network characteristics of people who inject drugs in the Chicago metro area and associations with hepatitis C virus and injection risk behavior	85
A mixed-methods analysis of risk-reduction strategies adopted by syringe services program participants and non-syringe services program participants in New York City	78
Contamination of a drug consumption room with drugs and potential risks for social health care workers	57
HIV risk and prevention among clients of a delivery-based harm reduction service during an HIV outbreak among people who use drugs in northern rural Minnesota, USA	55
Moving from ‘stigma reduction’ to ‘inclusion’: development of the inclusion collaborative at Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, New South Wales	51
Experiences of harm and mental ill-health among gay, bisexual and other men-who-have-sex-with-men who use methamphetamine or GHB/GBL in different combinations: findings from the COMeT study in Taiwan	45
Fentanyl harm reduction strategies among Latinx communities in the United States: a scoping review	45
Willingness to use and distribute HIV self-testing kits among people who inject drugs in the San Diego–Tijuana border region	44
The impact of institutionalization on the effectiveness of harm reduction: a qualitative study using drug users’ representations	43
“The people who depended on us became expendable”: Experiences of frontline workers with lived and living expertise of drug use during the COVID-19 pandemic	43
The acceptability of overdose alert and response technologies: introducing the TPOM-ODART framework	42
Nasal administration of diacetylmorphine improved the adherence in a patient receiving heroin-assisted treatment	38
Exploring perceived quality of life in long-term methadone-dependent patients: a qualitative study	36
Acceptability of supervised injection facilities among persons who inject drugs in upstate New York	35
Decentralized HIV testing: comparing peer and mail-based distribution strategies to improve the reach of HIV self-testing among people who use drugs in Florida	34
Welfare first: transforming harm reduction at UK festivals	33
Drug checking services: barriers and facilitators to implementation by U.S. syringe services programs	33
Associations with experience of non-fatal opioid overdose in British Columbia, Canada: a repeated cross sectional survey study	32
Drug decriminalization: a co-designed study outlining the implications for providers of youth services	32
Examining rural community pharmacists’ knowledge and practices in opioid overdose prevention and treatment services in the Southeastern United States	32
Online interventions and virtual day centres for young people who use drugs: potential for harm reduction?	31
Assessment of two brands of fentanyl test strips with 251 synthetic opioids reveals “blind spots” in detection capabilities	31
Expanding single-venue services to better engage young people who inject drugs: insights from India	31
Vaping among Norwegians who smoke or formerly smoked: reasons, patterns of use, and smoking cessation activity	30
Will the Russian war in Ukraine unleash larger epidemics of HIV, TB and associated conditions and diseases in Ukraine?	30

Strategies used to reduce harms associated with fentanyl exposure among rural people who use drugs: multi-site qualitative findings from the rural opioid initiative	28
Gender and power dynamics in three types of injection partnerships among young women in rural Appalachia	28
“Expected to happen”: perspectives on post-release overdose from recently incarcerated people with opioid use disorder	28
The war on drugs is a war on us: young people who use drugs and the fight for harm reduction in the Global South	28
“To not feel fake, it can’t be fake”: co-creation of a harm reduction, peer-delivered, health-system intervention for people who use drugs	28
One voice and vision: How the RISE network built a collective identity as the foundation for strategic dissemination	27
Facilitators of and obstacles to practitioners’ adoption of harm reduction in cannabis use: a scoping review	27
Substance use stigma reduces trust and informational support: experimental evidence across risk and relationship contexts	26
Harm reduction in substance use: perspectives and experiences of community volunteers and student interns in Durban, South Africa	26
“Naloxone? Not for me!” First cross-assessment by patients and healthcare professionals of the risk of opioid overdose	26
Improving access to HIV care among people who inject drugs through tele-harm reduction: a qualitative analysis of perceived discrimination and stigma	25
Accessing digital harm reduction services —exploring the impact of the “Here4UScotland” application	25
The implementation of safer drug consumption facilities in Scotland: a mixed methods needs assessment and feasibility study for the city of Edinburgh	25
Barriers to uptake of harm reduction techniques for GBMSM who use drugs in night-clubs and sex-on-premises venues in London and the Southeast: a mixed-methods, qualitative study	25
Channelling and taxation in European online gambling markets: evolution and policy implications	24
Safety and feasibility of intranasal heroin-assisted treatment: 4-week preliminary findings from a Swiss multicentre observational study	24
First results of the French OCTOPUS survey among festival attendees: a latent class analysis	24
Is fentanyl in everything? Examining the unexpected occurrence of illicit opioids in British Columbia’s drug supply	23
Counting the vulnerable: estimating the population size and assessing the HIV care continuum among women who inject drugs in Southern Mozambique	23
Is use of opioid agonist treatment associated with broader primary healthcare use among men with recent injecting drug use histories following release from prison? A prospective cohort study	23
Challenges for drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions	23
Willingness to use syringe services programs in a Northern Midwest American Indian community	23
Puff, Puff, Don’t Pass: harm reduction for cannabis use during a viral respiratory pandemic	23
Houselessness and syringe service program utilization among people who inject drugs in eight rural areas across the USA: a cross-sectional analysis	23
Use and perceptions of Cannabidiol among individuals in treatment for opioid use disorder	23
“There are only so many fires you can put out”: nonprofit structural constraints on service delivery for pregnant and postpartum women who use drugs in Appalachian North Georgia	23
Feeling safer: effectiveness, feasibility, and acceptability of continuous pulse oximetry for people who smoke opioids at overdose prevention services in British Columbia, Canada	22
Change in substance use among patients in opioid maintenance treatment: baseline to 1-year follow-up	21
Factors associated with gaps in naloxone knowledge: evidence from a 2022 great plains survey	21
Overdose risk in the context of chemsex among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men	21
Correction: Non-injection drug use among incarcerated people in Iran: Findings from three consecutive national bio-behavioral surveys	21
Harm reduction behaviours and harm experiences of people who use 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in Aotearoa New Zealand	21
Celebrating each success: proportion of remission as a measure of recovery from polysubstance use disorder proportion of remission; a recovery measure	21
Practical guidance for navigating buprenorphine discontinuation	21
Harm reduction engagement and ongoing opioid use among adults receiving methadone or buprenorphine in Philadelphia	21
Leveraging mHealth interventions to reduce sex- and drug-related risk behaviors among chemsex-involved men who have sex with men: evidence from a qualitative study	21
Spike on a bike: mobile harm reduction in action	21
A systematic review of interventions that impact alcohol and other drug-related harms in licensed entertainment settings and outdoor music festivals	20
Characteristics of adverse reactions to kratom and implementation of harm reduction strategies in a sample of ethnobotanical tea bar patrons in Colorado	20
Patient perspectives on naloxone receipt in the emergency department: a qualitative exploration	20
Feasibility of paying people who use drugs cash to distribute naloxone within their networks	20
Identifying barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccination uptake among People Who Use Drugs in Canada: a National Qualitative Study	20
Prevalence of HIV and Hepatitis C and access to opioid substitution treatment among people who inject drugs in three cities in Croatia: findings from the second wave of respondent-driven sampling surv	19
Structural stigma within inpatient care for people who inject drugs: implications for harm reduction	19
BeHERE’s effective virtual training to build capacity to support people who use drugs in non-substance use disorder settings	19
Correction: Developing a comprehensive inventory to define harm reduction housing	19
Reducing medical cannabis use risk among Veterans: A descriptive study	19
Assessing healthcare cost changes associated with transitioning away from cigarette smoking using healthcare claims data: an exploratory study among adult male patients with COPD	19
Total systems failure: police officers’ perspectives on the impacts of the justice, health, and social service systems on people who use drugs	18
“It’s just what’s around these days”: social and contextual pragmatism in substance transitions	18

“They make it too hard and too many hoops to jump”: system and organizational barriers to drug treatment during epidemic rates of opioid overdose	18
Anabolic-androgenic steroid testing as a tool for consumer engagement and harm reduction: a sequential explanatory mixed-method study	18
Evaluating the implementation and impact of harm reduction vending machines in veterans supportive housing settings: a mixed-methods study protocol	18
Not all screens are created equal: examination of surface features and other physical properties of commonly used screen materials for smoking drugs	18
An evaluation of first responders’ intention to refer to post-overdose services following SHIELD training	18
Patterns of polysubstance use among people who use drugs on an American Indian reservation of a southern plains Tribal Nation	17
Best practices for community-based overdose education and naloxone distribution programs: results from using the Delphi approach	17
Effects of a social network intervention on HIV seroconversion among people who inject drugs in Ukraine: moderation by network gender composition	17
A qualitative study on cannabis use for harm reduction and pain among veterans enrolled in an SUD treatment program	17
International harm reduction indicators are still not reached: results from a repeated cross-sectional study on drug paraphernalia distribution in Germany, 2021	17
Analysis of different populations accessing online overdose response training and harm reduction supplies (ADORES)	17
“They won’t prosecute, but they will though:” the continuing struggle between criminalization and harm reduction within the criminal justice system in the context of an opioid overdose crisis	17
Involuntary discharge from drug or alcohol treatment programs in Vancouver, Canada	17
Doctors’ and pharmacists’ perspectives on the clinical use of medicinal Cannabis: a cross-sectional study	16
The association between cannabis use and adherence to COVID-19 public health guidelines: prospective analyses from the French CONSTANCES cohort and SAPRIS survey	16
Correction: The managers’ perspectives on service providing in women’s harm reduction centers during the COVID-19 pandemic: mixed method study	16
Setting foot in private spaces: extending the hepatitis C cascade of care to automatic needle/syringe dispensing machines, a mixed methods study	16
“I feel like marijuana is the only drug that wouldn’t kill me”: perceptions of cannabis use in previously incarcerated Black men who have sex with other men	16
Switching behavior and changes in smoking behavior by menthol cigarette preference and menthol heated tobacco product use among adults in the United States who smoke cigarettes: an actual use study	16
The potential use of digital technologies to enhance opioid agonist treatment in rural and remote communities of British Columbia, Canada	16
Predictors of concurrent heroin use among patients on opioid maintenance treatment in France: a multilevel study over 11 years	15
Creating safe, inclusive spaces for hospital-based health care staff and people who use drugs: an exploratory qualitative study in Vancouver, Canada	15
The impact of supported accommodation on health and criminal justice outcomes of people released from prison: a systematic literature review	15
The joy and pain of being a harm reduction worker: a qualitative study of the meanings about harm reduction in Brazil	15
Microbiological contamination in androgens from the black market	15
Prevalence and predictors of condom use among people who inject drugs in Georgia	15
Challenges in legitimizing further measures against smoking in jurisdictions with robust infrastructure for tobacco control: how far can the authorities allow themselves to go?	15
HIV vaulnerability among people who inject drugs (PWID): findings from the Bangladesh integrated biological and behavioural surveillance (IBBS) study 2020	15
Feasibility, acceptability, and perceived usefulness of a community-evidence-based harm reduction intervention for sexualized stimulant use among Mexican gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with	14
'It’s not going to be a one size fits all': a qualitative exploration of the potential utility of three drug checking service models in Scotland	14
Law enforcement and syringe services program implementation in rural counties in Kentucky: a qualitative exploration	14
Managing high-risk behaviours and challenges to prevent housing loss in permanent supportive housing: a rapid review	14
Injecting drugs alone during an overdose crisis in Vancouver, Canada	14
Transformative justice approaches to domestic, family, and sexual violence: a scoping review	14
Development, acceptability and feasibility of a personalised, behavioural intervention to prevent bacterial skin and soft tissue infections among people who inject drugs: a mixed-methods Person-Based	14
Quantifying the size and characteristics of a population of people who use drugs on the reservation lands of a tribal nation in the southern plains (USA)	14
Heroin pipe distribution to reduce high-risk drug consumption behaviors among people who use heroin: a pilot quasi-experimental study	14
The “goldfish bowl”: a qualitative study of the effects of heightened surveillance on people who use drugs in a rural and coastal Canadian setting	14
Ultrasound-guided phlebotomy in primary care for people who inject drugs	14
The associations between social determinants of health, mental health, substance-use and recidivism: a ten-year retrospective cohort analysis of women who completed the connections programme in Austra	14
Assessing attitudes towards elements of the overdose response hotlines/applications (ORHAs)	14
Are you tripping comfortably? Investigating the relationship between harm reduction and the psychedelic experience	14
“I don’t let anybody die on my watch”: perspectives on the intersection of community overdose response and emergency medical services among people who use drugs in Seattle, WA	13
Correction: A reduced exposure heated tobacco product was introduced then abruptly taken off United States shelves: results from a tobacco harm reduction natural experiment	13
Developing and testing a digital harm reduction app for GBMSM engaging in chemsex: a feasibility study grounded in users' lived experiences	13
Come back when you’re infected: pharmacy access to sterile syringes in an Arizona Secret Shopper Study, 2023	13
Peer-led drug checking in Chile: a case study of the country’s first harm reduction service at electronic music events	13
Uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among people who inject drugs	13
Sterile syringe availability in Georgia pharmacies remained rare, despite policy change permitting sales	13
Xylazine co-occurrence with illicit fentanyl is a growing threat in the Deep South: a retrospective study of decedent data	13
Patterns of use and adverse events reported among persons who regularly inject buprenorphine: a systematic review	13
Scaling up low barrier wound care for people who use drugs: a mixed methods study	13
A scoping review on barriers and facilitators to harm reduction care among youth in British Columbia, Canada	12
Preloading with drugs before entry to the nighttime entertainment district: presentation, intoxication rates, and effects of police presence during assessment	12
Public health impact and harm reduction implications of xylazine-involved overdoses: a narrative review	12
High prevalence of hepatitis B virus susceptibility among persons undergoing community-based hepatitis C virus treatment	12
Perspectives of U.S. harm reduction advocates on persuasive message strategies	12
Best practices for first psychedelic experiences: harm reduction advice from the psychedelic community	12
Correction: Economic evaluation of the effect of needle and syringe programs on skin, soft tissue, and vascular infections in people who inject drugs: a microsimulation modelling approach	12
Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine uptake and preferences for service delivery among people who inject drugs accessing a syringe service program	12
The challenges, opportunities and strategies of engaging young people who use drugs in harm reduction: insights from young people with lived and living experience	12
How an emergency department is organized to provide opioid-specific harm reduction and facilitators and barriers to harm reduction implementation: a systems perspective	12
50 years of harm reduction in Europe: high time for transformation	12
Withdrawal during outpatient low dose buprenorphine initiation in people who use fentanyl: a retrospective cohort study	12
Differentiating the role of alcohol in young men’s use of substances with sex: A qualitative study	12
Oral health risks in adults who use electronic nicotine delivery systems and oral nicotine pouches: a critical review of the literature and qualitative synthesis of the available evidence	12
HIV prevalence and continuum of care among incarcerated people in Iran from 2010 to 2017	11
The motives and methods of methamphetamine and ‘heroin’ co-use in West Virginia	11
The potential of new nicotine and tobacco products as tools for people who smoke to quit combustible cigarettes – a systematic review of common practices and guidance towards a robust study protocol t	11
Understanding Vietnam’s drug policy for amphetamine-type stimulants misuse	11
The quality and scope of health information on online drug platforms: a topic modelling and expert evaluation study of a Polish-language forum	11
‘We don’t live in a harm reduction world, we live in a prohibition world’: tensions arising in the design of drug alerts	11
“I don’t want to die”: a qualitative study of coping strategies to prevent fentanyl-related overdose deaths among people who inject drugs and its implications for harm reduction policies	11
Relational anonymity in reducing the harms of illicit drug use: accounts of users of dark web- and street-based services in Finland	11
Risk reduction behaviours following the detection of unexpected drugs through community drug checking: a cross-sectional study	11
Correction: Health workers’ perspectives of hepatitis B-related stigma among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in New South Wales, Australia	11
A Case report of a continuous ambulatory drug delivery (CADD) pump to deliver opioid agonist treatment in an acute care setting	11
“We want everything in a one-stop shop”: acceptability and feasibility of PrEP and buprenorphine implementation with mobile syringe services for Black people who inject drugs	11
Exploring substance use disorder discussions in Native American communities: a retrospective Twitter infodemiology study	11
Informed implementation practice – formative research of a mobile drug consumption room in Brno, Czech Republic	11

“We were building the plane as we were flying it, and we somehow made it to the other end”: syringe service program staff experiences and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Challenges for the implementation of injectable opioid agonist treatment: a scoping review	11
NPAideS: a drug-checking study among 3-methylmethcathinone (3-MMC) users	11
The quality of health information provided on web sites selling cannabis to consumers in Canada is poor	11
Cannabis products and risk perceptions among people who consume and do not consume cannabis in the UK: findings from the International Cannabis Policy Study	11
Social justice with harm reduction approaches for mothers who use opioids: an international comparative ethnographic study with community engaged methods	11
Supporting syringe services programs in the initiation and scale-up of vaccine administration: findings from in-depth interviews	10
Nurse prescribing practices across the globe for medication-assisted treatment of the opioid use disorder (MOUD): a scoping review	10
Exploring the perception of key stakeholders toward khat policy approaches in Ethiopia: a qualitative study	10
Vancouver’s Alcohol Knowledge Exchange: lessons learned from creating a peer-involved alcohol harm reduction strategy in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside	10
Differences by race and ethnicity in drug use patterns, harm reduction practices and barriers to treatment among people who use drugs in Rhode Island	10
Patient perceptions of and experiences with stigma using telehealth for opioid use disorder treatment: a qualitative analysis	10
Progress and challenges in the elimination of hepatitis C among people who inject drugs in Germany: results of a pilot study for a national monitoring system, 10 years after the first data collection	10
The impact of JUUL market entry on cigarette sales: evidence from a major chain retailer in Canada	10
Signals of increasing co-use of stimulants and opioids from online drug forum data	10
“We knew it was coming: we didn’t act” perspectives from people who use drugs and substance use workforce on the impact of delays in implementation of the supervised injection facility and drug checki	10
Common data elements for criminal legal system involvement for people who use drugs	10
Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare and substance use service access among women who inject drugs: a qualitative study	10
Evaluation of nitazene immunoassay test strips for rapid in-situ detection of nitazene and nitazene analogs in illicit drug samples	10
Posttraumatic stress disorder in people who use drugs: syringe services program utilization, treatment need, and preferences for onsite mental health care	10
Bigger than sport: the enhanced games and the commodification of telehealth, testosterone, and dependency	10
The relationship between police contacts for drug use-related crime and future arrests, incarceration, and overdoses: a retrospective observational study highlighting the need to break the vicious cyc	10
Opioid overdose prevention education in Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Selling sex in the context of substance use: social and structural drivers of transactional sex among men who use opioids in Maryland	10
A simplified point-of-service model for hepatitis C in people who inject drugs in South Africa	10
“Because we’re the experts”: centering the expertise of people who use drugs to identify and propose solutions for overdose prevention	10
Understanding the role of overdose witnesses: responses and characteristics of people who inject drugs in Oakland and San Francisco	10
Legal sourcing of ten cannabis products in the Canadian cannabis market, 2019–2021: a repeat cross-sectional study	10
Correction: Reducing the harms of xylazine: clinical approaches, research deficits, and public health context	10
Impact of Spanish gambling regulations on online gambling behavior and marketing strategies	10
SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence, correlates, and access to harm reduction services among people who inject drugs living with and without HIV and their partners in Kenya	10
Challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s HIV harm reduction centers: a mixed-methods study	10
Non-disclosure of drug injection practices as a barrier to HCV testing: results from the PrebupIV community-based research study	10
Overdose responses among rural people who use drugs: A multi-regional qualitative study	9
Managing risks and harms associated with the use of anabolic steroids: a qualitative study	9
The geography of risk: understanding disparities in nonmedical opioid mortality and the role of socio-built environments in New Jersey	9
A novel model of care; Telemedicine and peer support for HCV care among HIV-infected people who inject drugs in remote Myanmar: a retrospective study	9
Patterns of care contacts in the final year of life among opioid overdose fatalities in southern Sweden: a latent class analysis	9
COVID-19 vaccination intention among people who use drugs in France in 2021: results from the international community-based research program EPIC	9
Supervised on-site dosing in injectable opioid agonist treatment-considering the patient perspective. Findings from a cross-sectional interview study in two German cities	9
Women, gender and drugs: between research and action	9
E-cigarette use and smoking-related disparities in England: an observational study using small area estimation and nonparametric regression	9
The impact of psychostimulant use on office based buprenorphine treatment retention	9
Point-of-care community drug checking technologies: an insider look at the scientific principles and practical considerations	9
CENTER-ing Black voices: incorporating lived experience across the research process to advance equity in drug treatment and outcomes	9
Reducing the harms of cannabis use in youth post-legalization: insights from Ontario youth, parents, and service providers	9
Muslims perceptions of safe alcohol use: a qualitative study in the Gulf Council Cooperation countries	9
An exploration of desired abstinent and non-abstinent recovery outcomes among people who use methamphetamine	9
Peer-assisted telemedicine for hepatitis C intervention in people experiencing housing instability	9
What we need, not what we’re given: recommendations for action from young sex workers who use drugs	9
Cohort profile: the Kyrgyzstan InterSectional Stigma (KISS) injection drug use cohort study	9
Mandatory verses voluntary self-tests for new online casino customers: effect on engagement, quality, gambling behavior and use of responsible gambling measures	9
Philanthropic donor perspectives about providing harm reduction services for people living with HIV/AIDS in a hospital setting	9
Comprehensive drug policies increase trust in local government: an analysis of authorities’ and residents’ perspectives in rural US Appalachian and Midwestern counties	9
Innovations at the intersection of homelessness and substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review	9
‘Why would we not want to keep everybody safe?’ The views of family members of people who use drugs on the implementation of drug consumption rooms in Scotland	9
Street drug monitoring with networked spectrometers powered by machine learning: a pilot study in Ontario, Canada	9