Harm reduction journal

01 17 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12954-026-01561-4

Anti-doping counselling as an unimplemented professional responsibility: a potential paradox in community pharmacy practice

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Mihaela Petričević, Diana Gujinović

02 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12954-026-01565-0

Study protocol: seeking treatment for gambling – a 10-year retrospective clinical and register study of gambling patterns and physical and psychiatric comorbidity in patients with gambling disorder

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Anders Håkansson, Yassir Abdul Rahim, Molly Miles et al.

Background: Gambling disorder, the first non-substance-related addictive disorder to be recognized, can have a severe impact on health and psycho-social well-being, but treatment seeking is often low, and the documentation of clinical ne...

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03 15 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12954-026-01544-5

Harm reduction perceptions among budtenders & young adults in a mock dispensary environment

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Ireland M. Shute, Megan E. Brown, Bethany Gray et al.

04 15 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12954-026-01547-2

Bottom-up surveillance: why digital community adulteration reporting belongs in the European drug early warning architecture

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Alexandre Delforge

Background: Drug checking services have matured into a differentiated ecosystem of implementation models, from centralised laboratory surveillance to point-of-care spectroscopy, festival-based volunteer services, and postal schemes. Yet,...

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05 14 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12954-026-01525-8

Study protocol for Hastiin Bidziil (Strong Man): a randomized controlled trial of a strength-based, culturally adapted intervention for substance use reduction among American Indian men

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Kyann L. Dedman, Jerreed D. Ivanich, Anna Garriott et al.

06 13 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12954-026-01560-5

Characterizing the composition and multiplexity of social support and drug use networks among people who inject drugs in Baltimore, Maryland

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Jasmine Wang, Eshan U. Patel, Carl A. Latkin et al.

07 12 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12954-026-01528-5

“There’s not much you can do. You put up with it and bottle it up and take more drugs”: how women who use drugs navigate, negotiate, and resist gendered violence

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Sif Ingibergsdottir Mogensen

08 11 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12954-026-01541-8

Opioid antagonists for overdose reversal in the era of synthetic opioids: a scoping review of high-dose naloxone and nalmefene

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Brayden Kameg, Emily Matthews, Dawn Lindsay et al.

09 9 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12954-026-01551-6

A universal approach to reducing stigma in healthcare: a program logic for The Stigma-Free Standard

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Carla Treloar, Louise Maher, Kate Seear et al.

10 9 October 2026

DOI 10.1186/s12954-026-01527-6

“We would love to offer everything:” findings from a qualitative study of syringe exchange program staff on integrating sexual and reproductive health care into New York State syringe exchange programs

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Polly Faust, Tamar Zurashvili, Katarina Colón et al.

Background: People who use drugs (PWUD) are a marginalized population who face barriers seeking reproductive health care in a culture that stigmatizes both drug use and reproductive health care. Syringe Service Programs (SSPs) were creat...

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