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Saving Lives with Peer Support

Saving Lives with Peer Support

Opioids are increasing the rates of overdose. But death is not inevitable. Peer support specialist Chetwyn “Arrow” Archer helps others connect with lifesaving care and tools, including overdose reversal medications such as naloxone.

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Sex, Meth and HIV

Sex, Meth and HIV

Ending the HIV epidemic requires recognizing and respecting the complexity of the health goals and lives of sexual and gender minorities who use drugs.

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Trust, Stigma and Patient Care

Trust, Stigma and Patient Care

Science-based care for people who use drugs includes nonjudgmental communication and goal setting. NIH-funded researchers share best practices for health professionals.

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Caring for People Who Use Drugs

Caring for People Who Use Drugs

NIDA-supported research tests innovations in how to provide science-based, person-centered care to people who use drugs. Here, people who use drugs, people in recovery, and harm reduction professionals including Dr. Hansel Tookes, provide health professionals with best practices.

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Addressing Barriers to Care

Addressing Barriers to Care

NIDA-funded researcher Dr. Hansel Tookes and others share how innovations in harm reduction and HIV care aim to meet people where they are to improve their health and the health of their community.

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What is Harm Reduction?

What is Harm Reduction?

<a href="/research-topics/harm-reduction">Harm Reduction</a> approaches address certain health and safety issues associated with drug use. Dr. Hansel Tookes, winner of the NIDA <a href="/about-nida/organization/offices/hiv-research-program-hrp/avenir-awards-hivaids-research">Avenir Award for HIV Research</a>, and others describe what harm reduction is (and isn’t) in their own words.

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