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Syringe-exchange programme (SEP), needle exchange program (NEP) [ edit on Wikidata ] A needle and syringe programme ( NSP ), also known as needle exchange program ( NEP ), is a social service that allows injection drug users (IDUs) to obtain clean and unused hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost.
Needle exchange programs provide people who inject substances with new needles and injection equipment to reduce the harm (e.g., HIV infection) from needle drug use. Drug paraphernalia available from a harm reduction NGO at a mobile supervised injection site in Berlin, Germany.
NEXT (Needle EXchange Technology) Harm Reduction is an American nonprofit that sends naloxone, sterile syringes, and other harm reduction supplies through the mail. [1] It is based in the state of New York but serves clients throughout the country. [1] It is the first formal mail-delivered harm reduction service in the US. [2]
Apr. 1—MORGANTOWN — The House Health and Human Resources Committee approved the Senate bill to license needle exchange programs. It also approved the bill to extend the welfare applicant drug ...
The Tacoma Needle Exchange always has been cutting edge. In fact, the nonprofit — which traces its origins back nearly 35 years to the late Dave Purchase, who first set up a television tray and ...
El Dorado County cannot enforce its ban on programs that hand out clean syringes as a legal battle continues between the county and the California Department of Public Health, a Superior Court ...
The needle exchange program offered through Outside In and Multnomah County was the subject of a grievance by the adjacent neighborhood Goose Hollow Foothills League due to concerns that needles handed out by Outside In are littered in Goose Hollow by its drug addict clients. The neighborhood association sent a letter on the matter of needles ...
According to a study done by New Haven Connecticut's needle exchange program, 67.5% of the needles returned to the facility were contaminated with HIV. [9] Their assumption was that people bringing in “street needles” were shared among other people prior to bringing them to the program. [9]