Local public health agencies and members of the public who need access to sterile syringes and other harm reduction services can contact the access programs listed below. The goal of syringe service programs is to reduce harms associated with drug use including injection-related health risks and overdose. A Colorado pharmacist or pharmacy technician may also sell a nonprescription syringe or needle to any person.
Learn more about harm reduction
- National Harm Reduction Coalition (National Harm Reduction Coalition website)
- CDC Summary of Information on The Safety and Effectiveness of Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) (CDC website)
Resources for syringe access programs
- Wound botulism prevention poster
- size 11 x 17 in English (PDF)
- size 11 x 17 in Spanish (PDF)
- Wound botulism fast facts (PDF)
- National Harm Reduction Coalition Syringe Access Resources (National Harm Reduction Coalition website)
- North America Syringe Exchange Network (NASEN website)
Safer substance use and risk reduction resources
- CDPHE Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Prevention and Care (webpage)
- Getting Off Right: Safety Manual for Injection Drug Users (National Harm Reduction Coalition website)
- Drug information and safer drug use (National Harm Reduction Coalition website)
- Quality Healthcare is Your Right (National Harm Reduction Coalition website)
- Pregnancy and Substance Use: A Harm Reduction Toolkit (National Harm Reduction Coalition website)
Fentanyl Information
- Fentanyl Resources: National Harm Reduction Coalition (National Harm Reduction Coalition website)
- Fentanyl Facts and Fiction: A Safety Guide for First Responders - JEMS: EMS, Emergency Medical Services (Journal of Emergency Medical Services website)
- ACMT and AACT Position Statement: Preventing Occupational Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analog Exposure to Emergency Responders (National Library of Medicine website)
- WTFentanyl (website)
Xylazine Information
- Xylazine in Colorado (webpage)