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PUBLICATIONS
Pharmacy Access to Clean Syringes, Fall 2001 Positive Link
Minnesota's law allowing pharmacies to sell clean syringes intended to
expand access to clean syringes. While MAP's outreach efforts have promoted
the law, it is clear that a more concerted effort focusing on both injecting
drug users and pharmacists is needed to increase awareness and utilization
of the law.
September 2000 AIDSLine
Brief - Substance Abuse and HIV Edition
The entire issue of this AIDSLine Brief is devoted to the issue of substance
abuse and HIV. Below is a brief synopsis of articles related to injection
drug use and HIV
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Harm Reduction: Does It Work?
Harm reduction recognizes that sometimes it is more appropriate to
reduce the harm rather than attempt to eliminate it. In HIV prevention,
needle exchanges and pharmacy access to sterile syringes are harm
reduction strategies to prevent HIV infection in injecting drug users. |
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The Role Between Substance Use &
HIV Infection
Substance users face multiple risks for HIV exposure and infection
from sharing drug injection equipment, neglecting safer sex strategies,
blurred judgment when intoxicated, and suppression of the body's ability
to fight off disease. |
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Minnesota Demonstrated Leadership
in Pharmacy Access Legislation
Syringe sharing among injecting drug users dropped 15 percent in the
year after Minnesota's pharmacy access law went into place. This is
only part of what is being learned from a study of injecting drug
users and pharmacies since Minnesota's law went in to effect. |
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MSM/IDUs: Poorly Understood
& Underserved
Men who have sex with men and inject drugs, or MSM/IDU in CDC transmission
risk language, pose a set of unique and difficult challenges for HIV
prevention efforts. They are particularly vulnerable to infection
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Linking HIV and
Substance Abuse - Prevention Works For Women, April, 2000
Injection drug use directly and indirectly has played a significant role
in the transmission of HIV in women. The articles discusses substance
abuse and women and features an interview with Sue Purchase, one of the
founders of Women with A Point, now known as AccessWorks!
Substance Use Raises Risk
in African-American Communities, March, 2000
For the African-American community in Minnesota, the connection between
injection drug use, crack-cocaine use and HIV transmission is significant.
This article discusses substance use in the African-American community
and features Don Anderson, founder of WU-WA (Wake Up-We're Affected).
INTERNET RESOURCES
Centers for Disease Control:
Injection
Drug Use Resources
HIV
Prevention Resources
Academy
for Education Development
Temple
University - Project on Harm Reduction in the Health Care System
National Institute
on Drug Abuse
Drug
Policy Foundation - formerly The Lindesmith Center
Minnesota
Department of Health
The Body - An AIDS
and HIV Information Resource
Harm Reduction
Coalition
Issues in Science
and Technology
"Addiction is a Brain Disease"
Columbia
University - National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
"Shoveling Up: The Impact of Substance Abuse on State Budgets"
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007
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