Services Database Pharmacy Needle Syringe Provision (Darlington Area)

Injecting is the most hazardous way of taking drugs. It is the main source of both
the short- and long-term risks of drug related death. Needle syringe provision
and harm reduction initiatives are developed within a wider approach that
advocates the following aims:

• Reduce the potential harms associated with active injecting drug use by
  providing sterile equipment.
• Reduce the prevalence of Blood Borne Viruses (BBV) and infections
  associated with injecting drug users and the local communities.
• Increase treatment knowledge of injecting drug users not currently
  engaged with treatment services.
• To maximise the access and retention of all service users, especially the
  highly socially excluded.
• To contribute to the reduction of drug-related deaths among injecting
  drug users.
• To reduce the rate of sharing and other high risk injecting behaviours.
• Reduce the cost of primary and secondary care caused by injecting drug
  use.