Harm reduction is one of four policies the Biden administration says must be immediately implemented in order to address the record-high number of overdose deaths.
In addition, the administration aims to double treatment admissions by 2025 and ensure patients have access to medications for opioid use disorder while in treatment.
"The national drug control strategy envisions major expansions in access to treatment and harm reduction, which will save many lives," said Dr. Josh Sharfstein, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health."Strategies supported by evidence and compassion have the best chance of reaching people and helping them to regain control of their lives."
The White House is also proposing better data collection to help predict who is most at risk for an overdose and issue warnings about changes in the drug supply. And it calls for renewed efforts to disrupt drug trafficking including sanctions against individual traffickers. The plan"is a call to action, to beat the overdose epidemic," Gupta said."This is not a red state issue or blue state issue. This is America's issue."that recommended greater adoption of harm reduction services supports his point. But access to harm reduction and treatment does vary state to state.
Pollini says she's glad to see the Biden administration include harm reduction in its plan to reduce overdose deaths but that the funding is far from adequate. Pollini and other harm reduction experts say the federal government needs to remove a ban on federal funding for syringes if it's going to expand these programs.
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