The San Francisco VA Health Care System’s Harm Reduction and Syringe Services Program serves veterans at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and nine VA clinics in downtown San Francisco, Oakland, San Bruno, Santa Rosa, Ukiah, Clear Lake and Eureka. offers. Our clinical pharmacist practitioner-led program aims to end drug-related stigma and discrimination in healthcare, prevent the spread of drug-related infections and overdose deaths, and increase service connectivity. increase.
Harm Reduction Education and Supplies
We provide harm reduction education and supplies in the following ways:
- Introduce yourself to clinicians and veterans
- Virtual and in-person outreach
- Prescription and non-prescription harm reduction supplies
- Email-based and clinic distribution
The harm reduction supplies we offer include:
- free Naloxone kit – requires a prescription. Please contact us.
- fentanyl test strip
- Safer injectable supplies (eg, sterile syringes, sharps containers, alcohol swabs, tourniquets, rice cookers, filters, ascorbic acid, sterile water)
- Safer sex products (eg, condoms, XL condoms, lubricants, spermicidal gel)
- Wound care products (e.g. gloves, bandages, antibiotic ointments)
- Hygiene products (eg, hand sanitizer, soap, washcloth tablets, deodorant, lotion, toothpaste, toothbrush, mouthwash, lip balm)
- Xylazine Test Strips (coming soon!)
- Safer Smoking, Nasal Breathing, and Rectal Use Supplies (Coming Soon!)
Service linkage
It helps connect veterans to services like:
- Hepatitis test, vaccine, treatment
- HIV testing, PrEP, and PEP
- Treatment and medication for opioid use disorders and substance use such as buprenorphine for nicotine replacement therapy
- LGBTQ services
- HUD-VASH service
- Community-based resources, including those for civilians