New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 4 - DISEASE CONTROL (EPIDEMIOLOGY)
Part 6 - REQUIREMENTS GOVERNING THE HARM REDUCTION/SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAM
Section 7.4.6.10 - SUPPLIES PROVIDED
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
Supplies which are permitted to be provided by the HRPs, listed below, include items which have been determined by the department to reduce negative health consequences associated with substance use, to prevent overdose mortality, and items designed to encourage participant engagement in other programming designed to improve overall community health. These items shall include:
A. Safer smoking supplies limited to screens, pipe covers, wooden pushers, copper scrub pads, uncoated foil, cured foil, or any other type of aluminum foil and straws designed to inhale substances.
B. Safer snorting supplies limited to clean spoons for measurement, clean plastic razors, clean flat surfaces.
C. Safer injecting supplies limited to syringes and needles, metal containers for cooking substances, cotton pellets or other filtration devices, twist ties, tourniquets, sterile water and saline, ascorbic acid, and biohazard containers for disposal of used syringes and needles.
D. Supplies or devices used for testing controlled substances or controlled substance analogs for potentially dangerous adulterants, including fentanyl test strips.
