Services Database Needle & Syringe Exchange Service (County Durham Area)

The service will:

• provide a free and accessible community based needle exchange service to injecting drug users (IDUs) with respect, confidentiality, and professional discretion;
• protect health and reduce the rate of blood-borne infections and drug related deaths among clients;
• reduce sharing and other high risk injecting behaviours by providing sterile injecting equipment and support, promoting safer injecting practices and reinforcing harm reduction messages including advice around safe injecting, safe sex, and overdose prevention;
• provide safe disposal facilities for used injecting equipment; and
• facilitate access to specialist drug treatment services and generic health services to IDUs who may be socially excluded.

Not known.