Overdose Prevention & Harm Reduction Resources and Information:
Overdose Prevention
How to Give Naloxone
Information on How to Administer Naloxone
NARCAN Nasal Spray Quick Start Guide
Administering Naloxone in an Overdose Response
Reacting to an Overdose
Recommendations for Management of Substance Abuse
How to Prevent, Identify and Respond to Opioid Overdoses
Tips for Preventing Overdoses: Do’s and Don’ts
Hazards of Counterfeit Products
Consideration and Health Consequences for Opioid and Heroin Users
‘Harm Reduction’ refers to policies, programs, and practices that aim to reduce the negative health, social and economic consequences of the use of legal and illegal drugs. Harm reduction does not attempt to minimize or ignore the real and tragic harm and danger associated with licit and illicit drug use, but incorporates a spectrum of strategies from safer use, to managed use, to abstinence – meeting drug users “where they’re at” to keep everyone as safe as possible and to minimize risk for fatal overdose.
Because harm reduction demands that interventions and policies are designed to reflect specific individual and community needs, there is no universal definition of or formula for implementing “harm reduction”. Rather, it is a philosophy that recognizes, first and foremost, that keeping someone alive is the first step to healing, and thus guides opiate overdose prevention programming.
Information on Harm Reduction
Cost Effectiveness of Syringe Access Programs
Syringe Exchange Programs and Hepatitis C
Opioid Overdose Prevention Resources for the Milwaukee Community 