Grand Erie Public Health (GEPH)

Harm reduction refers to policies, programs, and practices that primarily aim to reduce the adverse health effects of the use of legal and illegal substances without necessarily reducing consumption. Harm reduction interventions respect the rights of individuals to use substances, increase awareness regarding lower risk use, and address risk and protective factors related to harms

Harm Reduction programs include:

• providing safer injection, inhalation, and safer sex supplies
• providing sharps disposal bins throughout the community
• safe needle pick-up education and needle reporting and removal program
• naloxone administration, education and distribution including overdose prevention training
• education through participation in community events including International Overdose Awareness Day and National Addiction Awareness Week

• Brant
• Brant County
• Brantford