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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.

• From: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
• Published: 17 March 2021
• Last updated: 26 September 2024 — See all updates

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

• Potent synthetic opioids: preparing for a future threat
  • 1 August 2024
  • Guidance
• Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK
  • 22 March 2023
  • Research and analysis
• Wound aware: a resource for drug services
  • 11 January 2021
  • Guidance
• Drug health harms: national intelligence
  • 13 January 2020
  • Guidance
• Fentanyl: safety recommendations for first responders
  • 23 August 2018
  • Guidance
• Issuing public health alerts about drugs
  • 1 January 2016
  • Guidance
• Substance misuse services for men involved in chemsex
  • 1 November 2015
  • Guidance
• Treating substance misuse and related harm: turning evidence into practice
  • 1 January 2014
  • Guidance

Reducing drug-related deaths

• Preventing drug and alcohol deaths: partnership review process
  • 26 September 2024
  • Guidance
• Widening the availability of naloxone
  • 18 February 2019
  • Guidance
• Health matters: preventing drug misuse deaths
  • 15 September 2017
  • Guidance
• Providing take-home naloxone for opioid overdose
  • 1 July 2017
  • Guidance
• Preventing drug related deaths
  • 1 September 2016
  • Guidance
• Trends in drug misuse deaths in England
  • 1 April 2016
  • Guidance

Published 17 March 2021
Last updated 26 September 2024 + show all updates

1. 26 September 2024

   Added 'Preventing drug and alcohol deaths: partnership review process'.

2. 19 July 2021

   Added link to an evidence briefing.

3. 17 March 2021

   First published.