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Harm Reduction Team Palm Springs Schedule 

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Harm Reduction

760.668.4872

760.508.4526

MOBILE OUTREACH:

Monday:10:30am-12:30pm

Call for locations

Tuesday: 10:30am-1pm

Methodist Church, Alejo & N. Sunrise

Wednesday: 7am - 9am & 3pm-5pm

Call for locations

Friday: 9:30am–12:30pm

Arenas & El Segundo

FIXED SITE:

1445 N Sunrise Way Ste 102

Monday & Thursday: 8 am-7pm

Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday: 8am-5 pm

                                                                     

 

 

Vending Machine

Hunters Bar 302 E. Arenas 

For additional times and locations, please call DAP Health’s Harm Reduction Department at 760.508.4526 or 760.668.4872.

What is harm reduction?

According to the National Harm Reduction Coalition, it’s “a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. Harm reduction is also a movement for social justice built on a belief in, and respect for, the rights of people who use drugs.”

Doesn’t DAP Health’s harm reduction program enable people?

Yes! Entirely consistent with the nonprofit’s history and mission to end HIV and to provide comprehensive health care to all, the program enables people to be safer, and to live their healthiest and happiest life through education and connection to care.

At various locations throughout the Coachella Valley, DAP Health’s harm reduction team provides:

  • Free HIV and hep C testing.
  • New syringes to reduce HIV and hep C transmission.
  • Other safer use paraphernalia such as safer smoking kits and new cottons, cookers, tourniquets, and other injecting supplies.
  • Safer sex kits (condoms, lube).
  • Fentanyl & Xylazine strips for testing drugs before use to decrease the likelihood of overdose.
  • Naloxone and Narcan to help reverse the potentially fatal effects of opioid overdose.

Referrals available to persons who use drugs include:

  • Peer support specialists.
  • Early intervention specialists (for those with HIV and/or hep C who need treatment).
  • Local recovery and treatment centers, and substance use counselors.
  • Medication Assisted Treatment 
  • Insurance enrollment and connection to health care/other social support services.
  • DAP Health’s sexual wellness clinic (Palm Springs and Indio) for STI testing and/or PrEP.
  • Food and housing.

    Statistics 2022:

    • 1,042  participants served 
    • 1,269 syringes taken in via participant drop off & organized community pickup 
    • 839  referrals to recovery centers, primary care, and mental health 
    • 82  overdose reversals

    Statistics 2023:

    • 1,317  participants served 
    • 8,501 syringes taken in via participant drop off & organized community pickup 
    • 679  referrals to recovery centers, primary care, and mental health 
    • 267  overdose reversals

    Statistics January through June 2024:

    • 2,923  participants served 
    • 29,052 syringes taken in via participant drop off & organized community pickup 
    • 112  referrals to recovery centers, primary care, and mental health 
    • 261  overdose reversals

above Syringe Incentive Program is working! Community clean-up yielded syringe caps, but few syringes...folk are bringing used syringes to us for proper disposal!! 

MAKE A DONATION:

mailing address: 1445 N. Sunrise Way PS, CA 92262

WISH LIST:

DAP Health Harm Reduction Vending Machine Contents

Red-Dot:  Bag 1 (Booty Bump Kit) 

  • 2 cookers
  • 2 sterile water/saline 
  • 2 personal lubricant packets
  • 2 needleless syringes 
  • 2 benzalkonium chloride towelettes
  • 1 paperclip
  • 1 instruction sheet
  • 1 DAP Health harm reduction program mobile and brick-and-mortar location card 

 Yellow-Dot:  Bag 2 (Fentanyl Testing Kit)     

  • 2 testing strips
  • 2 cookers
  • 2 sterile water/saline
  • 1 instruction sheet
  • 1 DAP Health harm reduction program mobile and brick-and-mortar location card

Blue-Dot:  Bag 4: (GHB Kit)

  • 2 oral syringes
  • 1 plastic bottle cap
  • 1 packet of fizzy drink mix
  • 1 emergency card
  • 1 location card
  • 1 instructions

 Green-Dot:  Bag 5: (Safer-Snorting Kit)

  • 2 straws
  • 1 plastic card 
  • 1 plastic razor
  • 2 sterile water/saline
  • 1 tiny spoon 
  • 2 alcohol wipes
  • 1 personal lubricant packet
  • 1 instruction sheet
  • 1 DAP Health harm reduction program mobile and brick-and-mortar location card 

 Orange-Dotted Brown Box (HIV Self-Testing Kit) 

  •  1 kit

Narcan/Naloxone Box (Opioid Overdose Reversal)

  • 2 nasal sprays 
What is fentanyl and how does it increase the risk of overdose?
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is extremely potent—up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. Initially used for medical purposes, it’s now commonly found in recreational drugs like counterfeit pills, heroin, and cocaine. This presence has led to a spike in overdose deaths, with many users unaware of fentanyl’s presence or potency. In 2022, fentanyl and similar synthetics accounted for nearly 70% of overdose deaths.