Harm Reduction Images

A homemade kit for injecting street drugs, notably opiates. This kit substitutes several items found in a needle exchange kit (e.g. a latex glove in place of a tourniquet).
Anonymous, 2007 / Public domain

The contents of a needle exchange kit. Clockwise from top: tourniquet, cotton balls, cooker, condom, sterile water, alcohol swabs, needles of different gauges.
Tom Huffman, 2008

Consumption and Injecting Room (CIR) at INDRO, Münster, Germany.
Ralf Gerlach and Wolfgang Schneider, 2007 / Public domain

A home harm reduction kit including clean syringes, alcohol swabs, and sterile water.
JUNKe Life, 2011 / Public domain

Needle exchange point located at Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin, near Rue du Terrage by SAFE Association.
Coyau, 2012

Vending machine that sells injection kits (sterile syringes, swabs, etc.) for safe injection of intravenous drugs, Zurich, Switzerland.
Mike Knell, 2009

Diamorphine (heroin) prescription for a patient in a heroin-assisted treatment program, Germany.
Anonymous, 2012 / Public domain

Injection kit supplied at 'Insite,' currently Canada's only supervised injection site, Vancouver, Canada.
Unknown author, 2011 / Public domain

Overdose prevention kits that include IV naloxone are being distributed more frequently by needle exchanges and harm reduction centers.
Lucy Chen, 2010 / Public domain

An overdose prevention kit with IV naloxone, provided by Toronto Public Health.
Unknown author, 2012 / Public domain