Appendix A: Additional Resources By Topic
Links can be accessed at harmreduction.org
GENERAL RESOURCES
San Francisco Syringe Access and Disposal Program Policy and Guidelines (2011)
San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH)
Recommendations from a New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene panel of syringe exchange experts
Needle and syringe programmes: providing people who inject drugs with injecting equipment (2009)
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (UK)
Guide to Starting and Managing Needle and Exchange Programmes (2007)
Published jointly by UNAIDS, UNODC and the World Health Organization and prepared by the AIDS Project Management Group (APMG)
Ontario Needle Exchange Programs: Best Practice Recommendations (2006)
Strike C, Leonard L, Millson M, Anstice S, Berkeley N, Medd E.
Toronto: Ontario Needle Exchange Coordinating Committee (ONECC), a representative of the Ontario Needle Exchange Network (ONEN)
Needle and Syringe Program Policy and Guidelines for NSW (2006)
NSW Department of Health
International Harm Reduction Development (IHRD)
EFFICACY AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF SAPS
Talking Points – Top Five Studies Misused by Syringe Exchange Opponents
Drug Policy Alliance (DPA)
Government Studies in Support of Needle Exchange
Daniel Raymond, National Harm Reduction Coalition
Barbara Tempalski, Risa Friedman, Marie Keem, Hannah Cooper, Samuel R. Friedman
Syringe access for the prevention of blood borne infections among injection drug users
Sharon Stancliff
Can Difficult-to-Reuse Syringes Reduce the Spread of HIV Among Injection Drug Users?
By Caulkins, Kaplan, Lurie, O’Connor, Ahn
Cost Effectiveness of Syringe Exchange Programs
Health GAP
Syringe Exchange: An Effective Tool in the Fight Against HIV
GMHC: Gay Men’s Health Crisis, 2009
Harm Reduction
Harm Reduction Protocol: As practiced by the Chicago Recovery Alliance; June 1996
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Background and Protocol for Harm Reduction Practice
Chicago Recovery Alliance
DRUG USER INVOLVEMENT
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“Nothing About Us Without Us” — A Manifesto by People Who Use Illegal Drugs
2008 Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, International HIV/AIDS Alliance,
Open Society Institute
NEEDS ASSESSMENT
Rapid Assessment and Response Guide on Injection Drug Use
The World Health Organization
Implementation of Rural Syringe Exchange: From Zero to Funded
Shari Weiss, B.A. SUNY Cortland, Capstone Project
Chapter 2: Assessing Community Needs and Framing Issues
Community Health Advocacy – Sana Loue; Linda S Lloyd; Daniel O’Shea
New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003
Needs Assessment of Harm Reduction and Health Care Services for Substance Misusers Across Wales
Josie Smith , HPR Ltd, National Public Health Service for Wales
LEGAL STRATEGIES
The Laws, State by State: The Project on Harm Reduction in the Health Care System
Temple University’s Beasley School of Law
Syringe Access Law in the United States: A State of the Art Assessment of Law and Policy
Scott Burris, Stephanie A. Strathdee and John S. Vernick, Center for Law and the Public’s Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, November 30, 2002
The legal strategies used in operating syringe exchange programs in the United States
S Burris, D Finucane, H Gallagher, and J Grace; American Journal of Public Health. August 1996; 86(8 Pt 1): 1161-1166.
United States and the Politics of Syringe Exchange
Daniel Raymond, Erica Poellot and Allan Clear
State and Local Policies Regarding IDUs’ Access to Sterile Syringes
December 2005
FUNDING ISSUES
Harm Reduction Coalition Syringe Access Newsletter
January 2008, Volume 1, Number 1
Potential Funders for SAP Programs
- Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
- Comer Family Foundation
- Drug Policy Alliance
- Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF)
- MAC AIDS
- North American Syringe Exchange Network (NASEN)
- Tides Foundation
- United Way
- AIDS United
PROGRAM MODELS
Fact Sheet: SEP Delivery Models
Harm Reduction Coalition
What’s community got to do with it? Implementation Models of Syringe Exchange Programs
Downing, Moher, Riess, Thomas H., Vernon, Karen et al., AIDS Education Prevention, 2005 February; 17 (1): 68-78.
- N. Bluthenthal et al., Drug and Alcohol Dependence [Epub Feb 3], 2007
Policies and Procedures
The following are sample Policy and Procedure Manuals from harm reduction programs around the country. We extend our thanks to all of the programs who have allowed us to make their materials available. Please credit any material borrowed or adapted.
Washington Heights Corner Project Policy and Procedure Manual
New York, NY (2007)
Brandywine Consulting, Inc. Needle Exchange Handbook for Staff and Volunteers
Wilmington, DE (2007)
Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center Syringe Exchange Policy and Procedure Manual
New York, NY (2007)
Prevention Point Philadelphia Staff and Volunteer Handbook
Philadelphia, PA (2006)
Lifepoint Guidelines and Operating Procedures Manual
Milwaukee, WI (2005)
Drop-In Center Policy and Procedure Manual
Santa Cruz, CA (2004)
New York, NY (January 2009)
STAFFING
Guide for Assisting Management of Volunteers in Harm Reduction Practice
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Harm Reduction Outreach with Syringe Exchange – Guidelines and Operating Procedures
Chicago Recovery Alliance
SAFER INJECTING AND OTHER INJECTING EQUIPMENT
Getting Off Right: A Safety Manual For Injection Drug Users
National Harm Reduction Coalition
Positive Change Postcard Series
Chicago Recovery Alliance
DISPOSAL
Community Options for Safe Needle Disposal
Environmental Protection Agency
Coalition for Safe Community Needle Disposal
OVERDOSE PREVENTION
Matt Curtis and Lydia Guterman, 2009
Key summary of six US-based naloxone distribution programs
Traci C. Green et al, Yale University
From Chicago Recovery Alliance:
- OD Intervention Card — Using Naloxone
- OD Intervention Poster — Using Naloxone
- Opiate OD Prevention/Intervention Training — Slideshow
- Opiate OD Prevention/Intervention Training — Pre/Post Test
- Injection Partner OD Checklist
- Forms for Opiate Overdose Prevention Work
EVALUATION
AIDS Director Planning Guide And Toolkit: Key Elements of Managing a State HIV/AIDS Program
NASTAD Member Services,September 2009 Edition
Guidelines for Evaluating Harm Reduction Services
Manitoba Harm Reduction Network
COLLABORATION
TOOLKIT: Integrated, Collaborative or Merged Prevention and Care Planning Processes
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), May 2007
NASTAD Fact Sheet: Health Departments Role in Expanding Syringe Access
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), 2010
WORKING WITH THE MEDIA
OHRDP Communication and Information Toolkit for Needle Exchange Programs (NEPs)
The Ontario Harm Reduction Distribution Program developed this communications strategy to engage and support the broad network of Needle Exchange Programs and affiliated Harm Reduction organizations.
Dealing with the National Media
2007 National Conference on Injecting Drug Use presentation, “Experience from Australia”. A very brief overview including: “When and why should you use the media?” and the “5 Golden Rules” for print, radio, and television interviews.
WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT
Harmonizing Harm Reduction and Law Enforcement
Law Enforcement and Harm Reduction Network
Policing for Healthy Communities
Just Cause Law Collective
Syringe Possession Information for California Law Enforcement Officers
New Mexico Syringe Exchange Program – Law Enforcement Training
New York Police Academy Training (2004)
Injection Drug Users Health Alliance, November 2004
COPS HR: Coalition of Police Supporting Harm Reduction
Do Not Cross: Policing and HIV Risk Faced by People Who Use Drugs
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network – March, 2007
Needle Exchange Program: Considerations for Criminal Justice
Center for Innovative Public Policies
Attitudes of Police Officers Towards Syringe Access, Occupational Needle-Sticks, and Drug Use: A Qualitative Study of One City Police Department in the United States (2005)
Leo Beletsky, MPH, Grace E Mascalino, Ph.D., Scott Burris, JD.
Law Enforcement and Harm Reduction: Advocacy and Action Manual
Samuel R. Friedman, Hannah L.F. Cooper, Barbara Tempalski, Maria Keem, Risa Friedman, Peter L. Flom and Don C. Des Jarlais
Law Enforcement and Harm Reduction
amfAR
YOUTH
A Youth-Led Perspective: Best Practices for Youth Harm Reduction Programming
SEX WORK
Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP)
TRANSGENDER ISSUES
Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition
Transgender Health Empowerment
Transsexual Road Map: Facts About Silicone Injection
National Coalition for LGBT Health
SAGE – Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders
Intersex Society of North America
NALGAP – Association of LGBT Addiction Professionals & Their Allies