Drop-In Center Procedures (pdf 195K)
The intro on the HRC website:
"Drop-In Center Policy and Procedure Manual: For a decade and a half after its inception in the early-nineties, the Drop-In Center in Santa Cruz, CA was a model program. A collaborative project of the Santa Cruz Needle Exchange and the Santa Cruz AIDS Project, the DIC was well known for its innovative programs. The DIC produced project manuals, culturally-targeted IDU materials & literature, and a "DIC/Needle Exchange: How-To Guide" that were widely disseminated. These tools were replicated by Syringe Exchange and IDU Outreach programs statewide, nationally, and internationally."
Sigh - the good old days . . .
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Another DIC document from the good old days - a guide to setting up an exchange in a small city (like Santa Cruz).
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Chicago - Guidelines and Procedures (pdf 48K)
A manual from a Chicago exchange.
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Best Practices Report (pdf 1MB)
This is a 266 page guide to running a needle exchange. It's from Ontario, Canada (from 2006). Very comprehensive, lots of good advice.
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Human Rights Field Guide (pdf 350K)
"This guidebook was designed for any advocate or organization
working with people who use drugs that is aware of or has experienced
human rights violations. Abuses against drug users are countless,
but can include police harassment or physical abuse, discrimination
by medical or social service providers, violations of medical privacy,
wrongful and indefinite detention, and so on."
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Here's a comic about the "war" on drugs from the Real Cost of Prisons project.
Prisoners of the War on Drugs (pdf 1.6 MB)
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A newsletter (pdf 174K) from the Harm Reduction Coalition about funding syringe exchange programs.
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