Needle-exchange programme

Needle Exchange Program Group 9 Austyn Bolander, Chelsea Dugger, Catherine Hoover, Chris Giles, Cassandra Brown, Skiveta Rivera Indiana University East School of Nursing Literature Review Several studies have shown that injection drug users lower their risk of transmitting infectious diseases when there is a needle exchange program available. There has not been a valid study of whether or not the amounts of time needles are returned to the exchange programs are harmful to communities

take their life. One of that phenomenon is exchanging needles or using the same needle over and over again while doing drugs. In order to prevent chronic diseases like HIV and AIDS, in some countries their government has started a program called a needle exchange where drug users get the new and clean needles for their drug use. Basically, Needle and syringe programs (NSPs) are a type of harm diminution imagination that provides clean needles and syringes to people who have an addiction to inject

Arts School Abstract Another method used to reduce the spread of HIV among injecting drug users is through needle exchange programs (NEPs). In these programs, users can either exchange their used needles for an equal number of new, sterile needles or receive new ones without the requirement of an exchange. These programs also offered a variety of other services in addition to syringe exchange, including HIV/AIDS education and counseling, condom distribution, substance abuse, medical treatment referrals

Needle and Syringe Programs The needle and syringe program is a social service that allows IDUs to obtain hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost. This program allow addicts to confidently exchange dirty needles and syringes for clean needles as well as allowing the contaminated materials to be sent away for proper disposal. Acceptance of this program around

disease suffer whilst transmitting it to their loved ones as well. Fortunately, the Needle Exchange Program miraculously helps lower the risk of sharing needles and the spread of diseases between drug users, which in turn decreases the chances of intravenous users obtaining HIV and other fatal diseases. It is a government funded program that allows intravenous drug users to receive clean needles and exchange used needles in an orderly manner. Not only that, but the NEP also provides bleach bottles,

are recommended to resolve the problem. These are checking the trans-border smuggling of drugs, tackling the existing drug users and deterring fresh case. These can be implemented through strict vigil, Systematic De-addiction and Rehabilitation Programme (SDRP) and by generating scope for healthy livelihood. Strict Vigil The very first challenge is to impose strict check at the international borders again drug trafficking. The second challenge is to increase awareness regarding the adverse effect

–therapeutic doses of methadone. Clinicians choose to practice narrow approach focused on client’s substance rather than client centric approach. (Deering, Sellman, & Adamson, July 2014). Harm reduction as one of the objectives of New Zealand OST programme was introduced in early 1980s to retain and recruit more opioid injecting

Scenario 2: Jane Information is needed regarding Jane’s psychological and physical health. Psychologically Jane is most vulnerable to mental illness, the traumatic abuse from an early age by her father, any other events that have had negative impacts on Jane’s emotional state that haven’t yet been discussed, the side effects from heroine both using and during withdrawal, in addition the experience of being incarcerated and depersonalisation within a prison setting often causes feelings of helplessness

There are many different theories about how humans acquired Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), but the CDC and WHO agree that it was likely passed from a chimp to a human in the 1930s or 1940s while the humans were hunting. The humans became exposed to chimpanzee blood during slaughter and the blood contained Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV). SIV doesn’t infect humans and HIV doesn’t infect chimpanzees, but it is thought that eventually SIV adapted to HIV in humans. (I Know HIV, 2010) On September

that involve exposure to blood or other body fluids. Drug users should be provided with a good supply of new or sterilised needles and syringes through needle and syringe exchange programmes. It is one of the main methods grouped under the term ‘ harm reduction’ used to prevent HIV infection from injecting drug use. Methadone maintainance and other drug treatment programmes are also effective ways to eliminate the risk of HIV infection as the need to inject drugs altogether. CONCLUSION HIV/AIDS