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Needle Exchange and Safe Supply
Reducing infections and overdose risks.
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Needle Exchange and Safe Supply: Reducing Harms of Injection Drug Use

People who inject drugs face serious health risks beyond the drugs themselves. Sharing needles transmits HIV, hepatitis C, and other bloodborne infections. Contaminated drug supplies cause overdoses. Needle exchange programs—also called needle and syringe programs or syringe services—provide sterile injection equipment to reduce disease transmission. Safe supply programs go further, providing pharmaceutical alternatives to contaminated street drugs.

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