New: Results from the 2025 WA State Syringe Services Program Health Survey – Report and Webinar (April 29, 1pm PT)
04/16/2026
The WA State Syringe Services Program Health Survey is conducted every other year by CEDEER at UW ADAI in partnership with Public Health-Seattle & King County, the Washington State Department of Health, and syringe services programs (SSPs) across the state. The surveys asks participants about their substance use, health behaviors, and health care and substance use treatment needs.
This year’s survey was conducted from September to November (2025) and our report includes data from 1,694 eligible syringe services program participants from 24 programs across the state.
Eligibility criteria included opioid or stimulant use.
Key Points
- SSPs provide a broad range of supplies and services, including safer drug use supplies as well as naloxone, wound care, and hygiene supplies.
- Participants are interested in additional services at SSPs such as drug checking (53%), and physical (75%) and mental health care (69%).
- Methamphetamine remains the most frequently used drug (90%), followed by fentanyl (60%).
- Over half of SSP participants surveyed were unhoused and a quarter had temporary or unstable housing.
- Most people who used opioids (72%) or stimulants (62%) wanted to reduce or stop their substance use.
- A substantial minority of respondents who used opioids were interested in methadone as a treatment medication (42%), with somewhat lower interest in buprenorphine (26%).
- Utilization of smoking supplies was high at programs that provide them (89%), and interest was high among sites that do not (83%).
Read the 2025 SSP Health Survey report | Read a UW Medicine News piece about it
Survey results webinar
Join us on April 29, 2026 (1-2pm PT) to learn about the results of the 2025 Washington State Syringe Services Program Health Survey.
Presenters:
- Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MSW, MPH, Director CEDEER ADAI
- Alison Newman, MPH, CEDEER ADAI
- Katie Strozyk, MPH, Thurston County Public Health & Social Services Department
