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      • Components of a Septic System
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      • Family Planning Clinic Appointment Forms
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    • Quitting Tobacco
      • Baby & Me - Tobacco Free
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      • KICKSTART V - ESCAPE THE VAPE
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    • Special Resources for Pregnant Women
    • Tobacco Industry and Marketing Tactics
    • Tobacco Prevention Resources
    • Tobacco Resources for Medical Providers
    • Youth and Tobacco
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    • HIV/AIDS
    • Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)
    • Tuberculosis (TB)
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    • Education and Resources for Healthy Living
    • Minot Community Resource Guide
    • Newsletter- Your First Step Into Health
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      • Home Emergency Kit Information
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All Programs : Alcohol and Addiction Programs : Good Neighbor Project Syringe Service Program

Good Neighbor Project Syringe Service Program

First District Health Unit offers the FREE Good Neighbor Project syringe service program on Thursdays from 9:30AM to 3:30PM at the Minot office, unless we're closed due to weather or holiday. 

The program is confidential.  Clients will be given a participation card with an ID number, and services will be tracked only by that number.  The Good Neighbor Project will be available only at the First District Health Unit clinic in Minot and will provide:

  • services to clients 18 years of age and above who inject psychoactive drugs.
  • syringes/needles, cookers, hand sanitizer, alcohol swabs, tourniquet, water, cottons, disposal containers for syringes, safe sex kits and wound care kits.
  • disposal of used syringes.
  • condoms and prevention counseling to reduce the risk of sexual transmission of Hepatitis, HIV and STDs.
  • HIV, Hepatitis and STD screening.
  • education and referral to HIV, Hepatitis and STD prevention, treatment and care services including PReP.
  • referral and linkage to Hepatitis A and B vaccination.
  • education and training on drug overdose response, risk reduction and treatment including the administration of overdose reversal medication.
  • Naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses.
  • referral for substance use disorder treatment.
  • response or referral when necessary for overdose or wound care. 

The Minot Good Neighbor project is a community-based public health prevention program providing harm reduction services to people who inject psychoactive drugs.  It has been approved by the North Dakota Department of Health.

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First District Health Unit • 801 11 Ave. SW • PO Box 1268 • Minot, ND 58702
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