Needle and syringe service / exchange

Service Details

No appointment required. Click and Collect Service available. Open Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, unless staff are out on appointment. Phone ahead and/or use Click and Collect Service if you wish. At the Needle and Syringe Service you can: - pick up free needles and barrels - return used equipment - get confidential advice

Using new, sterile injecting equipment helps keep you safe from infections, wounds and abscesses. It protects you from viruses like HIV, hep B and hep C.

You can get new equipment free, whatever you’re injecting, including steroids. Let staff know what you’re using and they’ll make sure you get the right equipment. You can get: needles (pins) syringes (barrels) spoons (cookers) citric or vitamin C filters foil bins No-one will tell anyone else that you've been to the needle and syringe service. Anything you discuss is confidential. (The only time We Are With You will share your information with someone else is if they’re seriously worried about your safety or someone else’s.)

Area of Operation

Cowal & Bute

Days Available