Servicios de reducción de daños del condado de Columbia

What does “Harm Reduction” mean? Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing nega-tive consequences (i.e., negative health outcomes) associated with drug use.

Harm Reduction is a public health philosophy that seeks to empower individuals, remove barriers to accessing the support that they need, and supply pragmatic approaches to risk reduction in a non-judgmental/non-coercive way that is compassionate and accepting of any positive change. Harm Reduction supports a wide spectrum of strategies from doing the behavior more safely, to limiting certain behaviors, to abstinence.

Los principios de salud pública de la reducción de daños incluyen

Meeting the client where they are, using programs designed for the community being served. Accepts that drug use is part of our world and chooses to work to minimize its harmful effects on the people using drugs, rather than ignore or condemn those individuals.

Understands that drug use and behavior change are complex and multifaceted.

They include a continuum of behaviors from severe abuse to total abstinence.

Affirms that people who inject drugs are the primary agents responsible for reducing the harm from their drug use, and seeks to empower them to support each other and share information. Recognizes that the realities of poverty, class, racism, social isolation, past trauma, sex-based discrimination and other social inequities affect both people’s vulnerability to and capacity for dealing with drug-related harm.

Días

FIRST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH - VERNONIA
SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH-CLATSKANIE
THIRD WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH - VERNONIA
FOURTH WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH - RAINIER
CALL FOR MOBILE SERVICES - SCAPPOOSE
CALL FOR MOBILE SERVICES - ST HELENS

Time 12:00PM - 2:00PM

Los programas de reducción de daños proporcionan

•  Eliminación segura de jeringuillas
• Formación y kits de naloxona disponibles en cada acto
•  Kits de rescate de sobredosis
•  Acceso a material de inyección seguro
•  Asesoramiento sobre reducción de riesgos
•  Suministros para un sexo más seguro
•  Derivación de recursos a servicios de salud mental, servicios de acogida y tratamiento del alcoholismo y la drogadicción.
• Pruebas rápidas de la hepatitis C

Contacto:

EQUIPO CÓMO

Línea principal- 503-438-2227 ext 4001