Find a Syringe Service Program

Syringe Service Programs (SSPs) are effective community-based interventions that can prevent infectious diseases, link clients to treatment for substance use disorders, and can reduce overdose deaths among people who inject drugs. They do not increase illegal drug use or crime.

SSPs offer free and anonymous services including syringes, supplies, overdose prevention resources, and other services in several communities around Vermont. Clients of SSPs are protected from our state’s paraphernalia law.

Sterile syringes may be sold at pharmacies throughout Vermont without a prescription. However, individual pharmacists may choose not to sell them.

AREAS SERVED NAME MOBILE OR FIXED SITE

Bennington and Windsor County

AIDS Project of Southern Vermont

Fixed and mobile

Chittenden County

Howard Center Safe Recovery

Fixed and mobile

Orange and Windsor County, select NH counties

HIV/HCV Resource Center

Mobile

Orleans, Essex, Caledonia, Orange, Washington, Lamoille, Addison, Rutland, Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle County

Vermont CARES

Fixed and mobile

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Not sure which program is in your area? Call 802-565.LINK and ask for a syringe service program near you or search for a program on VT Helplink.

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More Information
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Operating Guidelines for Organized Community-based Safer Injection Support Programs
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Vermont Statutes Related to Syringe Exchange Programs