Important Alert
Important - Health Canada has issued a recall on the birth control product called Alysena 28.
Alysena®-28 is the generic form of Alesse®. The product potentially contains two weeks of placebo (sugar pills) instead of one week, which increases the possibility of unplanned pregnancy.
If you, or anyone you know has filled a prescription of Alesse® or Alysena®-28, between December 1, 2012 and April 12, 2013,
please see a pharmacist to determine whether your prescription is affected by this recall. See both links below to check the affected lot numbers (found on your prescription product).
For more information call Peel Public Health at 905-799-7700 or visit Health Canada's website at:
AND to see the notice regarding additional lots of Alysena-28 affected by the recall:
Please NOTE: Peel Public Health, Healthy Sexuality Clinics do not dispense Alysena®-28.
NEP Overview
Peel Public Health’s Needle Exchange Program (NEP):
- Offers new needles* and other services to reduce the spread of blood-borne diseases among people who use needles for the purpose of injecting drugs, including steroids.
- Protects the public by reducing the number of used needles discarded in public places like playgrounds and washrooms.
- Follows a “Harm Reduction” philosophy.
Small amounts of blood often remain in used needles, mixing and/or rinsing water, and other drug injecting equipment such as spoons or filters. If you share needles and drug-injecting equipment, you can get - or unknowingly spread - a blood-borne infection like HIV, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C.
* The use of the term ‘needles’ refers to the whole injecting device: needle, syringe, plunger, barrel, etc.
The Harm Reduction Philosophy
Harm Reduction recognizes that a certain percentage of the population will use drugs and the goal is to reduce the harm that might result from drug use. Harm reduction aims to decrease the adverse health, social and economic consequences of substance abuse, for the user and the community, without requiring abstinence.
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NEP Services
All of Peel’s NEP services are free and confidential.
The Peel Works NEP:
- Provides new needles and injection equipment.
- Provides containers for the safe disposal of used needles and equipment.
- Picks up and safely disposes of used needles in sharps containers from needle exchange clients.
- Provides piercing kits which includes information about after care
- Provides information about safer drug use.
- Provides presentations on Harm Reduction, safer piercing, program services
- Provides information about safer sex as well as free condoms and lube.
- Offers referrals to:
- Peel’s Healthy Sexuality clinics for:
- Community agencies for support and treatment.
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Exchange Locations
To access needle exchange services in Peel:
- Call or text the NEP cell phone at 647-225-1623
New hours of operation and nursing services
beginning Dec. 3, 2012.
Regular hours:
Monday to Friday from 8:30a.m. to 10p.m.
Nursing Services:
Please call the John Howard Society in Brampton to find out which Wednesdays of the month clinics will be held.
- HIV testing (including the Rapid Test)
- Hepatitis A, B and C testing
- Testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
- Free treatment for certain STIs
- Birth control, emergency contraceptive pill and pregnancy testing
All services are free and confidential. No health card is needed.
Visit one of the needle exchange sites located in all Peel Public Healthy Sexuality Clinics to drop off or pick up supplies
Brampton
- 150 Central Park Dr., Suite 09 (across from the Bramalea City Centre)
Ph: 905-791-5905
Caledon/Bolton
- 18 King St. E - Bolton
Ph: 905-791-5905
Mississauga
- 325 Central Parkway West, Unit 21
Ph: 905-270-0587
- 2227 South Millway (South Common Mall)
Ph: 905-820-3663
- 6975 Meadowvale (Meadowvale Town Centre)
Ph: 905-270-5662
- 7330 Goreway Dr. (across from Westwood Mall)
Ph: 905-791-7800 ext. 2525
Visit one of our needle exchange sites located in the following community agencies to drop off or pick up supplies:
John Howard Society of Peel-Halton-Dufferin
www.johnhowardphd.ca
134 Main St. N
Brampton
905-459-2205
Hours: Monday – Friday; 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
130 Dundas Street East, Suite 300
Mississauga
905-459-0111
Hours: Monday – Friday; 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Peel HIV/AIDS Network
http://www.phan.ca/dnn/
160 Traders Blvd., Unit 1
Mississauga
905-361-0523
Hours: Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Youth Substance Abuse Program (YSAP)
http://www.ymcagta.org
151 City Centre Drive, Suite 800
Mississauga
905-276-9322
Hours: Monday – Wednesday and Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Thursday Drop-In 1 – 8 p.m.
Map of Needle Exchange Locations in Peel
To return a full sharps container or to pick up a new one, you can also visit any of the community recycling depots in Peel.
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