Party keepers: a significant community-based intervention for harm reduction.

The PK initiative-a harm-reduction intervention led by peers, aimed at fighting drug overdosing at gay venues-was useful in reducing drug use and sexual risk behaviours among the course participants. Most course participants also responded to drug-related emergency situations at gay parties, as a result. This evaluation of community health intervention within a sexual minority community can help health policy makers design more community based interventions and allocate resources to include community participants in harm-reduction policies.