Harm Reduction
Conceptualizes drug use as a complex, multi-faceted phenomenon that encompasses a continuum of behaviors from total abstinence to severe and chaotic use and acknowledges that some ways of using drugs are clearly safer than others.
What is harm reduction?
This is an opioid antagonist. This means that it attaches to opioid receptors and reverses and blocks the effects of other opioids. It can quickly restore normal breathing to a person if their breathing has slowed or stopped because of an opioid overdose.
What is Naloxone/Narcan?
Can increase risk of dehydration and impaired judgment
What is alcohol + molly?
This substance is the most widely used recreational drug in the United States
In this framework, these personal and contextual factors interact with one another, influencing the individual effects and experience someone has from a drug
What is the Drug, Set, Setting Framework?
Common signs of this include:
Loss of consciousness
Unresponsive to outside stimulus
Awake, but unable to talk
Breathing is very slow and shallow, erratic, or has stopped
For lighter skinned people, the skin tone turns bluish purple, for darker skinned people, it turns grayish or ashen.
Choking sounds, or a snore-like gurgling noise (sometimes called the “death rattle”)
Vomiting
Body is very limp
Face is very pale or clammy
Fingernails and lips turn blue or purplish black
Pulse (heartbeat) is slow, erratic, or not there at all
What are the signs of an opioid overdose?
The interaction between this depressant drug type and this drug with stimulant and psychoactive properties is generally safe and unlikely to have any amplifying or counteracting effects.
What are opioids + molly?
Taking this drug can make you feel:
What is ketamine?
On this continuum, movement is not necessarily linear. People can be in different places with regard to different drugs. Someone’s movement on this continuum is influenced by factors such as: access to drugs, finances, trauma, changes in living situation, culture, changes in social circles, etc.
What is the substance use continuum?
Common signs include
Chest and stomach pain
Changes to their heart rhythm
Rapid breathing
Dangerous increase in body temperature
Nausea and vomiting
Twitching and convulsions
What are the signs of a cocaine overdose?
This interaction can be lethal when mixed because they have synergistic effects. This means that they affect the brain & body in similar ways and combined can create a greater sum that can overwhelm the system.
What is alcohol + cocaine?
A 5 mg scoop or the bag's residue.
How much do you need to test for fentanyl or xylazine using test strips?
This is term used in the context of harm reduction to describe the uneven and inconsistent distribution of dangerous substances, such as fentanyl, within counterfeit pills or powders.
What is the chocolate chip cookie effect?
If needed, you may give more doses of every 2 to 3 minutes until the patient responds or until emergency medical assistance becomes available.
What is the time span recommended between doses of nasal Naloxone?
This interaction of drugs creates cocaethylene which is toxic & damaging for the liver and cardiovascular systems.
What is cocaine + alcohol?
This is a person who supervises others' psychedelic experiences. They provide food, water, and support to people using psychedelic drugs.
What is a trip sitter?
This thing limits a person’s ability to access services they need because they feel unworthy of receiving or requesting services. It may also create barriers while receiving services by people feeling unwelcome or judged by program staff that offers services.
What is stigma?
This is a technology in modern harm reduction and forensic drug checking, allowing for the rapid, non-destructive identification of substances in drug samples. It does this by analyzing the "fingerprint" of a substance—how it absorbs or scatters light.
What is Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy?
You will likely experience none of the positive effects and all of the come down. Some are inclined to redose too soon to try and feel something and this may result in serotonin syndrome
What are SSRIs + Molly/MDMA?
These programs help prevent the spread of bloodborne diseases like HIV and hepatitis C
What are needle exchange programs?