Frishta Nafeh

2 months ago | harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com | Frishta Nafeh |Carol Strike |Gillian Kolla |Matthew Bonn |Caroline Brunelle |Jade Boyd | +9 more

Key informants reported integrating wraparound care as a critical component of safer supply provision, connecting clients to primary and secondary health services, including HIV/HCV testing and treatment, wound care, and referral to housing support services. Some key informants believed this played a vital role in making programs more appealing to policymakers:“This is why I said we integrated into a primary care service.

Nov 18, 2024 | fis.tu-dresden.de | Cayley Russell |Farihah Ali |Frishta Nafeh |Jürgen Rehm

Introduction: Closures and reductions in capacity of select health and social services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic may have placed people who use drugs (PWUD) at a disproportionately increased risk for experiencing harms, and resulted in critical treatment disruptions. We conducted the current national study among a cohort of PWUD to understand how COVID-19 has affected service access, including any significant impacts PWUD may have experienced.