Brief Insight nine: Glasgow City Alcohol & Drug Partnership: The WAND harm reduction initiative
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Summary
The WAND initiative is an incentive based harm reduction programme for people who are affected by substance use in Glasgow City. It encourages people to engage with four key harm reduction interventions:
- Wound care
- Assessment of injecting risk
- Naloxone awareness and promotion, and
- Dried blood spot testing.
Specialist staff from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde deliver the service with their third sector partners. They encourage people to attend every three months so they can support them over time. This helps to keep track of their progress and allows for timely identification of risk and onward referral to relevant services.
Please send us an email at his.alcoholanddrugs@nhs.scot if you:
- have a question about our programme or resources
- would like to speak to a member of our team about our work