Tools & Interventions

• Rapid Teen Substance Use Screening Tool for Clinicians. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
• Staying Safe. National Development Research Institutes. Reducing HCV infection in injection drug users.
• Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens and Drugs. Drug Policy Alliance. Provides parents with the tools needed to evaluate and discuss strategies for protecting their teenagers from drug abuse.
• Opioid Analgesic Action Kit. NYC Health Dept. Provider and patient resources to help health care providers decrease opioid analgesic misuse and its health consequences.
• NYC Youth Addiction Treatment. NYC Health Dept. Pharmacotherapy sites offering buprenorphine or methadone treatment for young people ages 14-24.

Site Locators

• 1-800-LIFENET offer a 24-hour crisis hotline and referrals for mental health and substance abuse treatment in NYC.
• Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator (SAMHSA) National Database
• Buprenorphine Physician and Treatment Locator (SAMHSA)
• Expanded Syringe Access Program Pharmacies (ESAP)

Programs & Coalitions

• Injection Drug Users Health Alliance
• Safe Horizon: Street Works. Syringe exchange program for youth
• User to User: Peer Delivered Syringe Exchange NYC. Harm Reduction Coalition
• Tackling Youth Substance Abuse Initiative (Staten Island)

Research & Presentations

• Hepatitis C Surveillance among Youth and Young Adults in NYC, 2009–2013. J Urban Health, 2014.
• Injection Risk Behaviors Associated with Non-medical Use of Prescription Opioids Among Young Adults in NYC. Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, PhD, National Development and Research Institutes.
• Strategies for Preventing HCV among Persons Who Inject Drugs. Focus on prescription opioid analgesics. Jon E. Zibbell, PhD, CDC.
• Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Young Drug Users. What Can Viral Hepatitis Coordinators and Health Departments Do? Dan Church, Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
• Hepatitis C Among Youth in NYC: The Pharmacist’s Role in Prevention About ESAP and risks of Hep C in youth.
• Characterizing adolescent prescription misusers: a population-based study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. Jul 2008.
• Increasing Hepatitis C Prevalence and Associated Risk Behaviors among Incarcerated Young Adults. J Urban Health. Apr 2014.

Reports & Fact Sheets

• Technical Consultation Report | HCV in Young Persons Who Inject Drugs. HHS.
• MMWR | Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Adolescents and Young Adults — Massachusetts, 2002—2009. CDC MMWR.
• Clinical Guidelines | Primary Care Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Illicit Drug and Nonmedical Pharmaceutical Use in Children and Adolescents: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.
• Fact Sheet | Young people who inject drugs are increasing in the United States. Center for Drug Use & HIV Research (CDUHR).
• CDC | Viral Hepatitis and Young Persons Who Inject Prescription Opioids and Heroin