[PART VII.]  NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAM

Cross References

  Sale of sterile syringes for prevention of disease, see §325-21.

     §325-111  Definitions.  As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

     "Authorized objects" means objects authorized by the department for dissemination to syringe exchange participants for the purpose of reducing infection or injury; provided that the objects are incidental to syringe exchange.  "Authorized objects" may include but is not limited to cookers, cottons, or ties.

     "Department" means the department of health.

     "Director" means the director of health.

     "Needs-based distribution" means a syringe distribution practice that provides sterile needles and syringes to syringe exchange participants in quantities sufficient to reduce the likelihood of needles and syringes being shared or reused.

     "Program" means the sterile needle and syringe exchange program.

     "Program staff" means an employee of the department or its designee who is specifically tasked with procuring, handling, transporting, and providing sterile needles, syringes, and authorized objects and services to syringe exchange participants.

     "Residue" means the amount of controlled substance, as that term is defined in section 329-1, remaining in a syringe and needle after the plunger stopper is fully depressed.

     "Syringe exchange participant" means an injection drug user who receives a sterile needle and syringe pursuant to the program. [L 1992, c 152, pt of §2; am L 2025, c 106, §2]