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Table 2 Hierarchy of objectives and advice/interventions

From: A pragmatic harm reduction approach to manage a large outbreak of wound botulism in people who inject drugs, Scotland 2015

Objective

Advice/intervention

Eliminate risk of infection

• Advice on how to reduce or eliminate drug use altogether

• Information on access to opiate substitution therapy services

Reduce risk of infection

• Advice on switching to safer route of drug use

• Provision of foil to encourage smoking as an alternative to injecting

• Advice on safer injecting behaviour (ensuring they inject into a vein)

Reduce risk of severity

• Education and awareness raising of the signs and symptoms of illness and where to seek help