Healthcare Innovation September 17, 2024
A team of researchers concludes that primary care can play a major role in harm reduction around drug use
A team of researchers has examined the issue of how best to achieve the healthcare policy goal of harm reduction for those who are actively using drugs—referred to as “PWUDs”—“people who use drugs”—and has concluded that community health centers are optimally positioned to improve outcomes for PWUDs.
Writing in the Forefront (commentary) section of Health Affairs online on Sep. 17, researchers Mia Shenkman and Tonantzin E. Juarez write in “Health Centers Are Uniquely Positioned To Facilitate Harm Reduction’s Integration Into Primary Care,” that, “As the overdose death rate rampantly grows, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting 107,941...