AcademyHealth: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of syringe exchange programs

There’s one intervention for injection drug use that we rarely consider in the U.S. — syringe exchange programs. Do they work? Yes, and on multiple levels. I round up the evidence in my AcademyHealth post.

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Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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