Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute

ADAI Lunch & Learn: Results from the 2025 WA State Syringe Services Program Health Survey (March 26, 2026, 12-1pm PT)

03/04/2026
Alison Newman
Alison Newman, MPH

What do people who receive services from syringe services programs (SSPs) have to say about their substance use patterns, health behaviors, and service use?

What kinds of experiences have they had with healthcare, harm reduction, incarceration, and treatment?

What care and services do they wish they could access?

Join us on March 26, 2026 (12-1pm PT) to find out, when ADAI’s Alison Newman, MPH, talks to us about the results from the 2025 Washington State Syringe Services Program (SSP) Health Survey!

The WA State Syringe Services Program (SSP) Health Survey is conducted every two years among participants of SSPs. The survey is coordinated by ADAI’s Center for Community-Engaged Drug Education, Epidemiology & Research (CEDEER), in collaboration with Public Health-Seattle & King County (PHSKC) and with support from the WA State Department of Health (DOH). 

In this Lunch & Learn, Alison will cover survey results including: 

  • A brief history of our programmatic and data collection work with these organizations  
  • Drug use patterns and whether people smoked or injected  
  • Experiences with healthcare, harm reduction, incarceration, and SUD treatment  
  • What care and services SSP participants want  
  • Examples of how sites around the state use these data