Drop-in Center for Harm Reduction Services in Addiction
The drop-in center, officially licensed by the Welfare Organization, serves as a base for providing harm reduction services to individuals experiencing homelessness and addiction, or those at risk of infectious diseases who are not currently seeking to stop substance use.
Licensed by the Welfare Organization
This center offers primary harm reduction services to clients, which helps reduce the transmission of HIV among people who use drugs and contributes to improving public health. The center also operates a mobile outreach team.
Services Provided:
- Intake, screening, and initial counseling
- Medical consultation
- Methadone maintenance treatment
- Individual counseling
- Educational classes on life skills, safe injection practices, safer sexual relationships, and HIV prevention
- One hot meal and tea
- Referral for initial HIV testing
- Access to showers
- Distribution of sterile syringes, needles, and condoms
- Wound dressing and first aid
Mobile Outreach Team:
One of the center’s key services is its mobile outreach team.
This team consists of two individuals who are either in recovery or currently undergoing treatment and are capable of establishing effective communication with people who use drugs. In addition to referring clients to the drop-in center, they provide the following services:
- Distribution of sterile syringes, needles, and condoms
- Wound dressing
- Face-to-face education on HIV prevention and safe injection practices
- Collection of used and contaminated syringes from public areas
- Identification of vulnerable urban spaces and locations where people who use drugs gather
