Needle Depot

Provided by: PHS Community Services Society

Service Description

Provides harm reduction supplies, along with harm reduction education and referrals to health services, addictions services, and other social supports. Needle exchange services include distribution of clean needles, sterile water, and alcohol wipes; disposal of used needles; and health information to encourage safer injection practices. Provides safer drug use supplies such as crack pipe mouthpiece and screens, and injection supplies. Provides safer sex supplies, including condoms. Provides opioid users with free Take Home Naloxone Kits (Narcan) that can be used to reverse the effects of overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, heroin, methadone, morphine, and oxycodone. Open 24 hours a day, seven days per week.

Maple Hotel Overdose Prevention Site provides a place where people who use drugs can be safely monitored and treated immediately if they overdose. Hours are 7 am to 11 pm seven days per week. Open 24 hours a day on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays during the weeks that social assistance cheques are issued.

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