Streetworks Edmonton

Streetworks Edmonton Streetworks is Edmonton's needle exchange/Harm Reduction program. We're here to keep people safer and healthier, so join us!

Harm Reduction is a comprehensive, just and science-based approach to substance use. It represents policies, strategies and services which aim to assist people who use legal and illegal psychoactive drugs to live safer and healthier lives. All substances have both positive and negative effects and substance use may affect one’s health and legal vulnerability. Harm Reduction recognizes that people use drugs for many reasons. Reduction of substance use and/or abstinence is not required in order to receive respect, compassion or services. It is clear that most people who use substances do not experience problems, but in some circumstances, substance use can become dependent and/or chaotic. Harm Reduction enhances the ability of people who use substances to have increased control over their lives and their health, and allows them to take protective and proactive measures for themselves, their families and their communities.



-Is based on evidence, both from science and lived experience.
-Is rooted in compassion and justice.
-Challenges stigma and discrimination.
-Addresses policies and laws that create risk environments and harm to individuals, communities, and particularly marginalized groups. Harm Reduction approaches reject the notion that the use of criminal law should be the sole response to illicit substance use.
-Recognizes that the regulation of substances will decrease costs to health, justice and social systems, decrease violence, increase access to prevention, care, treatment and support services, decrease barriers, decrease racial profiling, and respect the human rights of people who use substances.
-Seeks creative solutions that are pragmatic, cost effective, and sensitive to the available resources, social context, and personal history of individuals. It challenges people to be courageous and think outside of the box.
-Promotes thoughtful, balanced and well researched approaches to the actual harms of substances and encourages truthful drug education.
-Advocates for enhanced and effective treatment options.
-Includes non-judgmental, client centred, strength-based services that provide the skills, knowledge, resources and support for people to live safer and healthier lives.
-Does not encourage drug use, enable harmful drug use, or “give up” on people. Harm Reduction approaches do quite the opposite - increasing access to services and creating a milieu of support for positive change.

06/26/2025

Take Advantage of Free Vaccines This Summer!HIV Edmonton and Streetworks will host a vaccine clinic on July 9, 2025, fro...
06/25/2025

Take Advantage of Free Vaccines This Summer!
HIV Edmonton and Streetworks will host a vaccine clinic on July 9, 2025, from 10 am - 2
pm. Anyone who qualifies can get their COVID-19 shot before the new rules start on August
11, reach out to Nurse Tamina if you have any questions about eligibility or the vaccine.
The current COVID-19 vaccine is called Comirnaty KP.2. It came out in October 2024.
If you:
• Did not get the 2024 Fall booster
• Have had fewer than 3 COVID-19 shots
• Or have health problems
You may need a booster to stay protected. Please talk to the nurse

05/27/2025

Caring for our city’s most vulnerable becomes especially critical in extreme weather conditions. Updates will be posted here when the summer extreme weather response is activated.

05/27/2025

Due to high amounts of Carfentanil being detected in samples tested in the Edmonton region in the last few weeks, we are sending out an advisory and reminding folks to :
-Carry Naloxone
-Use the buddy system
-Hydrate and take care of your body
-Visit Spectrum on Friday afternoons for testing services
-Reminder that specific colours or potency can change in 24hrs

Note* Ketamine and Benzodiazepines are also being detected in higher levels"

03/20/2025

Trevor Botkin, the manager of industry relations for the Construction Foundation of B.C., says that having the nasal form of naloxone — a drug which helps reverse opioid overdoses — would help people with an aversion to needles. Botkin says using needle-based naloxone kits can also be problemati...

03/12/2025

With the snow coming, please check on our unhoused community! (Call 211)
Overdose numbers are still unacceptably high, carry naloxone if you need new kits go to the closest pharmacy, give us or any other agency a call!

Multiple alerts issued after 37 overdoses recorded in 24 hours in Saskatoon
03/09/2025

Multiple alerts issued after 37 overdoses recorded in 24 hours in Saskatoon

Sending love to our colleagues Prairie Harm Reduction❤️❤️❤️❤️
03/09/2025

Sending love to our colleagues Prairie Harm Reduction❤️❤️❤️❤️

Kayla DeMong, executive director of Prairie Harm Reduction in Saskatoon, says the province needs to declare a health emergency and have the Saskatchewan Health Authority take charge of the situation.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6675261
03/09/2025

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6675261

Kayla DeMong, executive director of Prairie Harm Reduction in Saskatoon, says the province needs to declare a health emergency and have the Saskatchewan Health Authority take charge of the situation.

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10116 105 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB
T5H0K2

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 12pm
Tuesday 9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9am - 4:30pm
Friday 9am - 4:30pm

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+17804244106

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