Injection Drug Use

IDU Outreach | Syringe Access | Substance Abuse and HIV

What is MAP's Injection Drug Use Outreach?

Since the beginning, injection drug use (IDU) has accounted for a significant number of HIV infections. In Minnesota, injection drug use is an associated risk factor for 19 percent of all people known to be living with HIV. This figure includes people who inject drugs and people who were sexually active with someone who injects drugs.

Syringe Exchange in Action

Through mobile street outreach targeting injecting drug users since 1995, the MAP "green van" and Roger Moore are known on the streets.

Injecting drug users register as participants and receive an identification card with a confidential unique id number, information and referral to drug treatment, HIV testing and services, and resources and information for safe shooting and safe sex including exchanging used syringes for clean ones, clean works, and condoms and safer sex supplies.

As a mobile service, users have flexible
access to the service.

Please contact Roger Moore, 612-373-2477 office, 612-804-3902 cell, email to: rmoore@mnaidsproject.org for additional
information.

Sharing of syringes and drug injection equipment (cookers, cottons, tourniquets, etc) makes it easy for HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) to be passed from one person to another. Since 1995, MAP has operated a mobile syringe exchange program to educate drug users and increase their access to clean syringes and works.

Why would I call MAP's syringe access initiative?

If you inject drugs or are sexually active with someone who injects drugs, you could be at risk for contracting HIV or HCV. You may wish to call MAP's IDU health educator to learn more about how to protect yourself, to find out which pharmacies are participating in the pharmacy access initiative, to get clean syringes, works, sharps containers, and safer sex supplies, and to get resources and information ranging from drug abuse treatment to HIV care.

Do you work with injecting drug users in your social service agency, medical clinic, housing programs or does your work carry the risk of potential needle sticks from improperly disposed syringes, such as waste management? The staff in your agency may benefit from training on HIV and HCV, proper syringe disposal, and harm reduction methods.

Contact Info

Roger Moore
IDU Risk Reduction Educator
Minnesota AIDS Project

Mailing Address:
1400 Park Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55404

Email: rmoore@mnaidsproject.org
Phone: 612-373-2477
IDU Cell: 612-804-3902
Fax: 612-341-4057

IDU Resources & Publications

AIDSLine Brief: Substance Abuse and HIV Edition, September 2000
The entire issue of this AIDSLine Brief is devoted to the issue of substance abuse and HIV. Below are the included articles:

Harm Reduction: Does It Work?
The Role Between Substance Use & HIV Infection
I Live With HIV & Chemical Dependency
MSM/IDUs: Poorly Understood & Underserved
Sex + Drugs + Youth = High Risk
Recreational Drugs and Protease Inhibitors: A Good Mix?

Linking HIV and Substance Abuse - Prevention Works For Women, April 2000
Injection drug use directly and indirectly has played a significant role in the transmission of HIV in women. The articles discusses substance abuse and women and features an interview with Sue Purchase, one of the founders of Women with A Point, now known as AccessWorks!.

Substance Use Raises Risk in African-American Communities, March 2000
For the African-American community in Minnesota, the connection between injection drug use, crack-cocaine use and HIV transmission is significant. This article discusses substance use in the African-American community and features Don Anderson, founder of WU-WA (Wake Up-We're Affected).

INTERNET RESOURCES

Harm Reduction Coaltion
The Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC) is committed to reducing drug-related harm among individuals and communities by initiating and promoting local, regional, and national harm reduction education, interventions, and community organizing.

Chicago Recovery Alliance - Any Positive Change
This site contains valuable harm reduction information and downloadable documents and educational materials. Click on

NASEN
The North American Syringe Exchange Network is dedicated to the creation, expansion and continued existence of syringe exchange programs as a proven method of stopping the transmission of blood borne pathogens in the injecting drug using community.

Atlanta Harm Reduction Center
The Atlanta Harm Reduction Center is a street outreach program dedicated to impacting and empowering drug users in the fight against HIV, other infectious disease and stigma.

DanceSafe
DanceSafeis a nonprofit, harm reduction organization promoting health and safety within the rave and nightclub community. It has good, non-judgmental information on a number of street drugs.

AccessWorks!
612-870-1830
11W. 15th Street, Minneapolis
Minnesota's only storefront needle exchange program providing HIV prevention, education and intervention services utilizing harm reduction principles. Access Works! targets the poor and homeless populations focusing on female Injection drug users and their sexual partners.

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Last Updated: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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