The needle exchange program (NEP) provides sterile supplies and services that help keep you safer when using drugs. All supplies and services are free and confidential. You are not required to return or ‘trade in’ used equipment for new supplies, although we do encourage this. Please drop in to an NEP location or call us for:
- Needles; syringes
- Cookers/spoons
- Filters
- Sterile water
- Alcohol swabs
- Non-latex tourniquets
- Safer inhalation kits
- Snorting kits
- Vitamin C
- Condoms; dental dams
- Educational resources
- Testing for blood borne infections (e.g., Hep C; HIV) and sexually transmitted infections
- Used needle disposal
Needle exchange program locations in Elgin-St. Thomas
Southwestern Public Health – St. Thomas Site
1230 Talbot St, Clinical Services, Main Floor
Monday-Friday 8:30am – 4:30pm
Central Community Health Centre (CCHC)
359 Talbot Street, St. Thomas
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 8:30am – 7:30pm
Wednesday, 1:00pm-4:30pm
Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm
(Closed daily from 12:00pm-1:00pm)
Clinic 217
475 Talbot St, St Thomas
Monday 8:30am-7pm
Tuesday 8am-11:30am
Thursday 9am-3:30pm
Friday 8:30am-3:30pm
West Elgin Community Health Centre
Main entrance and to the left
153 Main Street, West Lorne
Second and fourth Thursday of each month1:00pm – 3:00pm
Needle exchange program locations in Oxford County
Southwestern Public Health – Woodstock Site
410 Buller Street
Monday-Friday 8:30am – 12:00pm and 1:00pm – 4:30pm
Ingersoll
17 Thames Street South
Monday and Wednesday 9:30am – 12:00pm
Tuesday 11:00am – 5:00pm
Thursday 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Friday 8:00am – 2:00pm
For more information call 519-303-0580
Tillsonburg
Ontario Addiction Treatment Centre (OATC)
5 Ridout Street East
Monday and Wednesday 8:30 – 1:00pm
Tuesday and Thursday 8:30am – 4:30pm
Friday 7:30am – 2:00pm
Saturday and Sunday 9:00am – 12:00pm
For more information call 519-409-6282
Mobile outreach in Oxford and Elgin Counties
Call or text 226-377-7968 for confidential and anonymous mobile supply services. This includes pick-up and delivery of harm reduction supplies, Naloxone training, and education or counselling as required.
Oxford County Mobile Outreach
Tuesday 10:30am – 3:30pm
Elgin County Mobile Outreach
Wednesday 10:00am – 1:00pm
What to do if you find a needle in your community
Visit our safe needle disposal page for information and instructions on what to do if you find a need in your community.