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The following data elements will be collected and stored by core Needle Syringe Program workers, workers funded under the AIDS Bureau Harm Reduction Outreach program, and Hep C Team outreach workers when distributing harm reduction supplies.



MDS for NEP and CTS

Data elementPermissible values
Site information

Site Name

Any site name chosen by the participating agency is acceptable.

Affiliated PHU

One of the 35 public health units in Ontario.

Programs provided

One or more of:

  • Needle Exchange
  • Harm reduction outreach
  • Hep C Team
  • Ontario Naloxone Program

Client information

Anonymous Client Code (part of the client reference code)Exactly 4 letters
Year of birth (part of the client reference code)4-digit year, between 1901 and 2018
Gender (part of the client reference code)
  • Male
  • Female
  • Trans Male
  • Trans Female
  • Other gender not listed
Postal code of residence (Forward Sortation Area only)
  • The first three characters of any valid postal code within Ontario (e.g. M5A)
  • Do not know
  • No fixed address
  • Outside of Ontario


Substances used

This field can be left blank (non-mandatory field); the permissible options are below.

  • Alcohol

  • Amphetamines

  • Antidepressants

  • Benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax, Ativan, etc.)

  • Cannabis (prescription/medical use)

  • Cannabis (recreational use)

  • Cocaine

  • Codeine

  • Crack / cocaine

  • Dilaudid/ Hydromorphone

  • Fentanyl (non-prescribed)

  • Fentanyl (prescribed)

  • Heroin

  • Hydrocodone

  • Inhalants (solvents such as gasoline, glue, aerosols such as spray paint,  gases)

  • Kadian

  • Ketamine

  • Methadone (non-prescribed)

  • Methadone (prescribed)

  • Methamphetamine (Crystal Meth)

  • Methamphetamine (speed)

  • Morphine

  • Non-beverage Alcohol (e.g., Listerine, other mouthwash, cooking wine, hand sanitizer, etc.)

  • Other

  • Oxycodone/Percocet/OxyNEO

  • Party Drugs (Ecstasy, MDMA, K, GHB, etc.)

  • Ritalin/methylphenidate

  • Speedball (crystal meth/fentanyl)

  • Speedball (crystal meth/hydromorphone/Dilaudid)

  • Speedball (fentanyl/crack)

  • Speedball/other polysubstance

  • Steroids/ testosterone

  • Suboxone/ buprenorphine (non-prescribed)

  • Suboxone/ buprenorphine (prescribed)

  • Unknown

  • Unspecified opioid

  • Unspecified stimulant
  • Wellbutrin/bupropion

NSP transaction information

Date of transaction

dd/mm/yyyy

Location of transaction
  • In-service NEP/NSP (core or satellite)
  • Addiction programs (e.g., residential and day programs)
  • Bars/night clubs
  • Residence (e.g., client home, apartment/house, hotel/motel, friend's place, place where client resides, etc.)
  • Community agencies/services (that are not fixed site needle exchange programs, e.g., church basement for the out of the cold program, shelters, etc.)
  • Community public spaces (e.g., barbershop, hair salon, bathhouse, massage parlour, etc.)
  • Jails/detention centres/prisons
  • Opioid agonist therapy clinics
  • Parties/raves
  • Pharmacies
  • Street/parks (e.g., you are on foot and distributing safer injection or inhalation equipment)
  • Mobile distribution from a van (e.g., driving a route and distributing from a van/car, does not include driving to a specific location to deliver supplies)
Client collecting on behalf of
  • Self
  • Self and others
  • Others only
Additional services provided
  • Brief Counselling
  • Harm Reduction Teaching
  • Indigenous Traditional Services
  • Practical Support
Referrals provided
  • Addictions services
  • Clinical service providers - HIV Care
  • Clinical service providers - Other Care
  • Clinical service providers - Primary Care
  • Clinical service providers - Urgent Care
  • Community event
  • Community-based HIV service providers
  • Harm reduction services
  • Hep C teams
  • Hep C testing other (non-Hep C team)
  • Hep C treatment other (non-Hep C team)
  • HIV/STI testing
  • Mental health service providers
  • Other community-based service providers
Safer injection equipment providedDetermined by the types of needles and supplies distributed at site.


Safer inhalation equipment provided
Other equipment provided
Safer sex supplies provided
Needles returned and Community Clean-up information

Date needles were returned

dd/mm/yyyy

Quantity of needles returned

Number

Date of community clean-up

dd/mm/yyyy

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