NEXT In-House Resources

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These resources were created by the NEXT Distro team with the editing support of NEXT's Medical Advisory Board, NEXT participants, fellow harm reductionists, and community partners.

We are constantly striving to improve. If you have edits to these resources, please let us know by emailing content@nextdistro.org

 

Table of Contents

  1. A Guide To Intravenous Use

  2. Nitazines & Medetomidine

  3. Cotton Filters for Injection 101

  4. Screens for Smoking

  5. Extreme Cold: Harm Reduction Tips for People Who Use Drugs

  6. Syringe Guide

  7. Safer Sharps Disposal

  8. Transitioning Routes of Administration

  9. Rescue Breathing 101

  10. Getting Started with Safer Injection

  11. Nasal Naloxone 101

  12. At Home Rapid Drug Testing

  13. Effects of Naloxone: A Post OD Care Plan

  14. Xylazine

  15. Xylazine Wound Care

  16. Setting & Maintaining Boundaries for Secondary Distributors

  17. Skin & Soft Tissue Infections: When to Seek Medical Care (&Why)

  18. Safer Hormone Injection

  19. Safer Meth Smoking

  20. Everyone’s Recovery Is Different

  21. Safer Crack/Rock Smoking

  22. Person-First Language/Talking to PWUD Without Stigma

  23. What is Overamping?

  24. Injecting to Smoking/Freebasing Transition

  25. Working with Marginalized Communities

  26. What is Cellulitis?

  27. Endocarditis

  28. Dental Health: Facts and Tips for People Who Use Drugs

  29. Abscess Care & Treatment for People Who Use Drugs

  30. Disability Pride Month

  31. Extreme Heat: Tips and Harm Prevention

  32. Using a Pulse Oximeter During an Overdose

  33. Harm Reduction History: Queer & Trans Roots

  34. HIV 101

  35. Intramuscular Naloxone Instructions

  36. Fight Back! Drug User Unions: How drug users are working together for their rights

  37. Xylazine 101: Harm Reduction and Wound Care

  38. Adjusting the Length of a syringe tip

  39. How to Identify the Signs of Fake or Counterfeit Pills (English | Spanish)

  40. How to prepare nasal sprays for drug use (English | Spanish)

  41. Withdrawal Management from Stimulants at Home (English | Spanish)

  42. Tapering Management from Benzos at Home (English | Spanish)

  43. Withdrawal Management from Opioids at Home (English | Spanish)

  44. Rectal Administration: aka Booty Bumping, Boofing, or Plugging (English | Spanish)

  45. Abscess Care for People Who Use Drugs

  46. Wound Care Bilingual Quarter Pager

  47. Cooking Down Crack for Injection Bilingual Quarter Pager

  48. Hot Rails (English | Spanish)

  49. Overamping: Stimulant Overdose (English | Spanish)

  50. Transitioning Route of Administration (English | Spanish)

  51. Monkeypox Mythbusters (English | Spanish)

  52. Privacy & Security

  53. Covid-19 Mythbusters

  54. Guidance for People Who Use Drugs During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  55. Disaster Readiness

  56. Bivalent Booster: Did you get your Omicron Booster yet?

  57. Drug use during the holidays

 

A Guide to Intravenous Use

Nitazines & Medetomidine

 

Cotton Filters for Injection 101

screens for smoking

 

Extreme Cold: Harm Reduction Tips for People Who Use Drugs

Syringe Guide: Gauges, barrel sizes, and needle length

 

safer sharps disposal

Transitioning Routes of Administration

 

Rescue breathing 101

Getting Started with Safer Injection

 

nasal naloxone 101

At Home Rapid Drug Testing

 

Effects of Naloxone: A post OD Care PLan (Pamphlet)

Effects of Naloxone: A post OD Care PLan (One-sheet)

 

Xylazine

Xylazine Wound Care

 

Setting & Maintaining boundaries with secondary distributors

skin & Soft tissue infections: When to seek medical care (& why)

 

Safer Hormone Injection

Safer Meth Smoking

 

Everyone’s Recovery Is Different

Safer Crack/Rocking Smoking

 

Person-First Language/Talking to PWUD Without Stigma

What is Overamping?

 

Injecting to Smoking/Freebasing Transition

Working with Marginalized Communities

 

What is Cellulitis?

Endocarditis

 

Dental Health: Facts and Tips for People Who Use Drugs

Abscess Care & Treatment

 

Disability Pride Month

Extreme Heat: Tips and Harm Prevention

 

Using a Pulse Oximeter During an Overdose

Harm Reduction History: Queer & Trans Roots

 

HIV 101 - english

HIV 101 - Spanish

 
 
 

Intramuscular Naloxone Instructions - english

 

Fight Back! Drug User Unions: How drug users are working together for their rights

 

Xylazine 101: Harm Reduction and Wound Care

 

Adjusting the Length of a syringe tip

 

How to Identify the Signs of Fake or Counterfeit Pills

 

How to prepare nasal sprays for drug use

 

Withdrawal Management from Stimulants at Home

 

Tapering Management from Benzos at Home

 

Withdrawal Management from Opioids at Home

 

Rectal Administration: aka Booty Bumping, Boofing, or Plugging

 

Abscess Care for People Who Use Drugs

 

Wound Care Bilingual Quarter Pager

Cooking Down Crack for Injection Bilingual Quarter Pager

 

Hot Rails

 

Overamping: Stimulant Overdose

 

Transitioning Routes of Administration

 

Monkeypox Mythbusters

In English

Monkeypox Mythbusters

In SPANISH

 

Privacy & Security

In English, spanish version coming soon

Covid-19 Mythbusters

In English, spanish version coming soon

 

Guidance for People Who Use Drugs During the COVID-19 Pandemic

IN ENGLISH, Spanish version coming soon

Disaster Readiness

In English, Spanish version coming soon

 

Bivalent Booster: Did you get your Omicron Booster yet?

IN ENGLISH

Drug use during the holidays

IN ENGLISH