INVOLVE AND SUPPORT PEERS IN Without judgment, harm reduction centers offer REACHING PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS a wide range of health and support services, including overdose prevention education, naloxone People who use drugs have been central to the for overdose reversal, HIV/HCV testing, and more development and delivery of harm reduction – and help connect people to social and health services from. [...] 9-8-8 – creating an opportunity to change the way communities respond to behavioral crises.205 Like drug use, sex work is highly stigmatized, and Local governments should ensure that the many of the harms related to sex work occur hotline is connected to a system of care (not law because of the criminalization of sex work and enforcement) from the initial call to 988, to a mobile people involved i. [...] experienced a serious mental illness.247 People with With the passage of the Mental Health & Addiction SMI are 10 to 20 times more likely to experience Equity Act in 2008239, the Affordable Care Act in houselessness than the general population.248 2010240, the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016241, and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021242 LACK OF ACCESS TO MENTAL (which ratified $4.25 billio. [...] These teams should be housed outside reduce the damaging and costly cycling of people of law enforcement and include a licensed and/ with mental health disabilities in and out of jails, or credentialed clinician capable of assessing the emergency rooms, hospitals, and shelters.258 needs of individuals within the region of operation. [...] In the context of addiction services, MI can mortality, particularly in the immediate aftermath be an effective way to help individuals who do not of the period of involuntary commitment.325 believe they have a problem to realize the benefits And, despite being an effort to reduce the of seeking help.328 The goal of MI is to enhance the criminalization of people with substance use individual’s own.
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