Services Database Needle Exchange Service (East Riding of Yorkshire Area)

Aims and Objectives of Service
To assist the service users to remain healthy until they are ready and willing to cease injecting and
ultimately achieve a drug free life with appropriate support.
To protect health and reduce the rate of blood-borne infections and drug related deaths among
service users by:

• reducing the rate of sharing equipment by encouraging needle identification schemes and reducing the rate of other high-risk injecting behaviours;
• providing sterile injecting equipment and other support;
• promoting safer injecting practices, particularly when dispensing long needles and other equipment that could be in more dangerous practices; and
• providing and reinforcing harm reduction messages including safe sex advice and advice on
  overdose prevention (e.g. risks of poly-drug use and alcohol use).

Not known.