This resource serves as a guide to speaking with patients who use drugs about harm reduction strategies such as safe injection tips, HIV prevention and prophylaxis, and naloxone to treat opioid overdose. It is one of the protocols and tools developed for Oregon Health & Science University’s Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) program which provides addiction medicine consultations to patients treated in the hospital who have a diagnosis of substance use disorder.
Funding Source: Oregon Health & Science University
Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Approach to Harm Reduction
The IMPACT guide to speaking with patients who use drugs about harm reduction strategies