Healthy Community Coalition applying for safe syringe service as part of harm reduction program

JAY – At the Jay Select Board meeting on Monday night, Director of the Healthy Community Coalition LeeAnna Lavoie approached the board in regards to their recent application to the State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services to become a certified syringe service program in the county. The syringe service program is a U.S. CDC recognized community-based prevention program that provides a range of services including linkages to treatment and recovery, access to the disposal of sterile syringes, and injection equipment testing, according to Lavoie. “Over the past five years, we’ve been working on addressing the opioid epidemicRead More