How to Use Fentanyl Test Strips
Infographics and step-by-step instructions.
Topic: Health and Safety
Wound Care & Medical Triage for People Who Use Drugs and the Programs That Serve Them
This comprehensive guide provides information and recommendations regarding general health, safer use practices, common viral, fungal, parasitic, and other injection-related infections, overdose and overamp, tapering, withdrawal, medications for opioid use disorder, and seeking medical care.
Xylazine: An Introduction for Service Providers Working with Unhoused Individuals
In this recorded webinar, panelists provide a brief overview of Xylazine, a substance newly found in illicit drug supplies, and its impacts on the unsheltered community. Panelists will share their lived expertise with xylazine, its effects, organizational best practices for wound care, overdose response, and harm reduction.
Xylazine Basics: Overdose Prevention, Harm Reduction, and Wound Care
This document provides information on xylazine, a non-opioid veterinary tranquilizer used as an additive in illicit drug supplies, notably in combination with heroin and fentanyl. It discusses the effects of xylazine use, including sedation and potential risks such as hypotension and bradycardia. The document also emphasizes harm reduction interventions for individuals who may encounter xylazine in the drug supply, including the use of naloxone for responding to overdoses and the importance of wound identification and treatment.
Native Harm Reduction Toolkit
This toolkit is a culturally responsive resource designed to help Native communities implement harm reduction strategies, decolonize public health approaches, reduce stigma, and engage Tribal leaders in supporting life-saving interventions.
National Harm Reduction Coalition
The National Harm Reduction Coalition builds evidence-based strategies with and for people who use drugs.