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Last updated September 22, 2026 · Reviewed by Penny Beach, PRS
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About This Agency
Based in Berkeley, California, NEED is unique among needle exchange programs because we are a volunteer-based collective. We started in September 1990 by a group of HIV+ persons, people in recovery, and health activists as an underground program operating out of a baby carriage on the corner of Hearst and San Pablo Avenues in Berkeley. We now operate out of a white van (currently no logo) at our neighborhoods sites each week. We offer no-cost, anonymous services in a client-centered manner, and we are dedicated to the prevention of infectious diseases and to improving the physical, spiritual, and political health of drug users. We also offer overdose prevention and narcan training and began an overdose prevention and education component to our services. We provide information and referrals for medical, housing, social support and treatment programs.
http://www.berkeleyneed.org/about/index.php
https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyNEED/
Located at: The Long Haul Infoshop 3124 Shattuck Ave @ Woolsey Street (2 Blocks East of Ashby BART Station)