- OAT: -Super Effective and Cheap, Give Opiod Agonist to help with withdrawal

OAT: Opioid Agonist Therapy

- Exchanging used syringes for clean syringes 
- Other Activities may be performed at these locations but this is their primary objective
- Other names: Syringe Services Programs (SSPs), Needle Exchange Programs (NEPs)

Syringe Exchange Programs Definitions

Arranging a sentence so as to put the noun referring to a person before the affliction, disease, or disability.
Example: saying "person with a disability" rather than "disabled person"

Person-First Language

- Person First Language
- Opioid Agonist Therapy
- Syringe Services Programs 

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- Not changing or advocating for a change in the legality of drug use but attempting to make the ude of drugs lessdetrimental to the user and scoiety

Harm Reduction

Werb D;Garfein R;Kerr T;Davidson P;Roux P;Jauffret-Roustide M;Auriacombe M;Small W;Strathdee SA; “A Socio-Structural Approach to Preventing Injection Drug Use Initiation: Rationale for the PRIMER Study.” Harm Reduction Journal, U.S. National Library of Medicine, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27629248/. 

A Socio-Structural Approach to Preventing Injection Drug Use Initiation: Rationale for the PRIMER Study 

“Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) FAQs.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 23 May 2019, www.cdc.gov/ssp/syringe-services-programs-faq.html. 

Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) FAQs

Forms of Harm Reduction

- Reducing the Spread of Diseases (Epidemology)

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