Harm Reduction And Syringe Services Program (SSP)

Jul 09, 2023

San Francisco VA Health Care System's Harm Reduction and Syringe Services Program offers services to Veterans at San Francisco VA Medical Center and its 9 VA clinics located in downtown San Francisco, Oakland, San Bruno, Santa Rosa, Ukiah, Clearlake, and Eureka. Our clinical pharmacist practitioner-led program aims to end drug-related stigma and discrimination in health care, prevent the spread of drug-related infections and overdose deaths, and increase connections to services.

We offer harm reduction education and supplies through:

Harm reduction supplies we offer include:

We help connect Veterans to services, including:

Tessa Rife-Pennington PharmD, BCGP

Pain Management, Opioid Safety, Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PMOP) Facility Coordinator; Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner, HUD-VASH Integrated Substance Use Care Team; Volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF School of Pharmacy; Facility Syringe Services Program (SSP) Lead

VA San Francisco health care

Phone: 415-319-1193

Email: [email protected]

Last updated: May 10, 2023