Please use this resource sheet to gather more knowledge and resources regarding pushback within your communities.

These resources may be helpful to health departments and other local partners engaged in planning, designing, and implementing syringe services programs (SSPs) in their jurisdictions.

This fact sheet gives an overview of Naloxone, and answers frequently asked questions about Naloxone.

Use this fact sheet to learn more about the basics of naloxone, who can carry it and how to use it.

Use this fact sheet to learn more about using opioids safely, as well as using naloxone.

Learn more about the principles of harm reduction and how to integrate this approach into the work that you do every day. Use this resource sheet to gain a better understanding and to see some great examples of harm reduction at work.

As overdose deaths continue to rise, we need to consider one of the biggest contributors to the epidemic: the large opioid supply. What steps can your community take to lower the opioid supply?

This video shows an example of a rural coalition that successfully implemented harm reduction strategies.

This document is a Q & A with Matt Curtis, Harm Reduction Specialist at CDPH. All of this information was covered during the COPN webinar, Fentanyl Test Strips: Your Questions Answered, on Tuesday, April 12, 2022.

This commentary describes how four rural and/or Appalachian communities quickly pivoted their existing THN (take home naloxone) programs to respond to community need.

This issue brief discusses the HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy in greater detail, including the objectives under each priority area, associated activities, and guiding principles.

This study examined the validity in identifying the presence of fentanyl of three portable devices that could be used in providing drug checking services and drug supply surveillance.

This page is an access point to resources that support safer drug use, such as access to naloxone and syringe services.

This toolkit is for local and state health departments and community partners who are exploring opportunities to implement or enhance peer support services within overdose response and linkage to care initiatives.

This operations manual is to provide those interested in implementing the HAVEN Project or a harm reduction vending machine project with a framework and additional tools to guide the process of establishment of a local program.

This curriculum is a comprehensive tool for teachers that allows them to have honest conversations about drugs with their students, equipping them with the skills to navigate their risks. It is the nation’s first harm reduction-based drug education curriculum for high school students.

California Family Code 6929 describes minor consent to drug services, and part (b) states that minors age 12+ may consent to diagnosis and treatment of drug/alcohol problems. Certainly doesn’t scream “give minors FTS and naloxone” but most law is parsimonious rather than narrowly prescriptive, and this is the legal basis we all use for youth overdose prevention services generally.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced that federal funding may now be used to purchase rapid fentanyl test strips (FTS) in an effort to help curb the dramatic spike in drug overdose deaths largely driven by the use of strong synthetic opioids, including illicitly manufactured fentanyl.

This video covers how to use BTNX’s urine drug test strips as a harm reduction tool.