Navigating harm reduction and security mandates: Prison leadership perspectives on implementing prison needle exchange programs in Canada

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Leadership engagement is essential for the sustainability and system-wide adoption of prison needle exchange programs in Canada. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Lise Lafferty; Nashira Popovic; Elise Weiss; Behzad Hajarizadeh; Andrew R. Lloyd; Frederick L. Altice; Nadine Kronfli

doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105197

February 13, 2026International Journal of Drug PolicyOpen Access

Navigating harm reduction and security mandates: Prison leadership perspectives on implementing prison needle exchange programs in Canada

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Key Points

This research aims to explore the perspectives of prison leadership on the implementation of needle exchange programs.
Examined barriers to harm reduction
Analyzed leadership roles in health and corrections
Evaluated sustainability strategies for programs
Identified critical barriers to program implementation
Clarified responsibilities between health and corrections
Emphasized the need for leadership engagement in adoption

Implication

Leadership engagement supports harm reduction in prison needle exchange programs, suggesting system-wide adoption challenges.

Abstract

Addressing outer context barriers and clarifying responsibilities between health and corrections are critical to PNEP sustainability. Leadership engagement is essential to enabling system-wide adoption.

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Lafferty et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699405254e9c9e835dfd5ec9 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105197

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Navigating harm reduction and security mandates: Prison leadership perspectives on implementing prison needle exchange programs in Canada

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Navigating harm reduction and security mandates: Prison leadership perspectives on implementing prison needle exchange programs in Canada

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