A study conducted in May 2020 on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on users of low-threshold drug services in Germany revealed an overall trend towards reduced opening hours of the services and interim closures during the lockdown in the first year of the pandemic.
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International harm reduction indicators are still not reached: results from a repeated cross-sectional study on drug paraphernalia distribution in Germany, 2021.
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We saw a comparatively high and increasing number of distributed LDS items and services from the majority of federal states reporting distribution of LDS items, pointing towards a positive trend of implementing the use of LDS items as additional harm reduction intervention.