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Naloxone, health supplies, and care for people in LA

For more than 30 years, we’ve worked to keep our community alive, safe, and connected. We provide survival supplies, naloxone, education, and linkage to treatment and services for whoever needs it. No judgement, just care.

About our work

Programs that meet you where you're at

Care looks different for everyone. Our programs cover overdose response, training, treatment, case management, and safer-use supplies. Use as many or as few services as you need.
  • Get Naloxone & Training

    Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND)

    Free naloxone and the training to use it, so you can reverse an overdose and keep the people around you alive.

  • Find Treatment

    Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) / Health Navigation

    We'll help you navigate your options for reducing or quitting opioids, stimulants, alcohol, tobacco, or cannabis and work with you to coordinate treatment on your own timeline.

  • Intensive Case Management

    Let Everyone Advance With Dignity (LEAD)

    Referral based one-on-one support to navigate housing, health care, and the services you're entitled to. For people navigating the criminal/legal system.

  • Get Supplies

    Syringe Service Program (SSP)

    The heart of CHPLA. Safer-use and health supplies with no ID and no exchange required, plus a door to everything else we offer.

Explore our programs

CHPLA responds to the ever-changing health needs of our community, filling gaps within the system.

See the work we do

How we show up for our community

For more than three decades, we've cared for our neighbors across LA County. Here's how that work takes shape.

Explore our work

Find us near you

We're out across LA County most days of the week. Find a Syringe Services Program (SSP) or Naloxone Access Point (NAP) site that work for you, and come as you are.

See the full schedule

Resources to help you stay safe, alive, and healthy

Practical guides and harm reduction information you can use, whether or not you ever walk through our doors.

Did you know?

- Foundations of Harm Reduction

Did you know?

Sex work is one of the few trades in which someone without any formal education can provide for themselves at an equal level to someone with an advanc

- Sex Work and Harm Reduction

Did you know?

- Respect to Connect: Undoing Stigma

Did you know?

The 1937 Marijuana Tax Act was the first federal U.S. law to criminalize marijuana.

- Drug War History

Did you know?

LA County has a dedicated Harm Reduction Unit that is focused on expanding access to harm reduction and overdose prevention services.

- Information on LA County Harm Reduction

Did you know?

As of June 2026, there are 98 syringe services programs in California.

- Syringe Services Programs in California: An Overview

Did you know?

In harm reduction, we believe that recovery can look different for everyone and that there's no one right or wrong way to be in recovery.

- Everyone’s Recovery is Different

Did you know?

- Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs #1 – Introduction

Did you know?

- Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs #2 – How to Talk to the Doc

Did you know?

- Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs #3 – The Front Desk

  • Foundations of Harm Reduction

    One-page primer on the core principles of harm reduction, plus the risk/set/setting framework for reducing drug-related harm

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  • Everyone’s Recovery is Different

    A NEXT Distro zine affirming that recovery is personal and non-linear, meaning different things to different people rather than a single path defined by abstinence.

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  • Blood 2 Blood: Hep C and Me

    A guide to hepatitis C: how it spreads through blood-to-blood contact, its symptoms, and how safer use and modern treatment can prevent and cure it.

    Learn more
  • Naloxona: Lo Basico

    Spanish-language guide to recognizing an opioid overdose and giving nasal or injectable naloxone.

    Learn more
  • Respect to Connect: Undoing Stigma

    Examines how stigma keeps people who use drugs from seeking care and offers concrete ways providers can replace judgment with trust, respect, and dignity.

    Learn more
  • Healthcare for People Who Use Drugs #3 – The Front Desk

    Guidance on checking in and dealing with front-desk staff when you arrive at a clinic.

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Are you a program in need of supplies?

If you run a program that distributes naloxone or safer-use supplies, our Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) team can help you stock up and train your staff.

Go to OEND