Preventing and reducing drug-related harm
Information and resources to support commissioners, service providers and others to reduce harm and prevent deaths related to substance misuse.
Healthcare professionals, commissioners and service providers can use these guidance documents, information and resources to help with reducing and preventing harm and deaths that are related to drugs.
Visit Alcohol and drug misuse prevention and treatment guidance for information on commissioning and providing alcohol and drug misuse treatment in England.
Reducing drug-related harm
Visit Public Health England’s Knowledge Hub for:
- briefings from the meetings of the National Intelligence Network on drug health harms from January 2020 onwards
- briefings from the quarterly Drug Harms Assessment and Response Team meetings, which aim to update health professionals on intelligence about current and emerging drug-related harms
Visit PHE’s Knowlege and Library Service to read an evidence briefing on the facilitators and barriers to the uptake of low dead space injecting equipment for people who inject drugs.
- Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK
- Wound aware: a resource for drug services
- Drug health harms: national intelligence
- Fentanyl: safety recommendations for first responders
- Fentanyl: preparing for a future threat
- Issuing public health alerts about drugs
- Substance misuse services for men involved in chemsex
- Treating substance misuse and related harm: turning evidence into practice
Reducing drug-related deaths
Last updated 19 July 2021 + show all updates
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Added link to an evidence briefing.
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First published.