Chlorine disinfection tablets are an inexpensive, discreet, safe, and highly portable alternative to thin bleach that can be distributed to increase the frequency and effectiveness of syringe cleaning.

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Cleaning syringes doesn't offer an absolute guarantee of safety, but there is good evidence that hepatitis C and HIV are killed by a simple rinse with cold water, rinse with bleach, rinse with cold water regime.

If everyone who reused injecting equipment did it routinely there would be a massive reduction in blood borne virus transmission.

Chlorine tablets come in small boxes of 2,400 tablets (1,200 strips of 2), although we can split into multiples of 100 (50 strips of 2) if you don't need a whole box.

Due to issues with customs, we only supply this product to UK delivery addresses.
How many?
We think that needle and syringe programmes should give at least one strip of two tablets per transaction in order to ensure that people who inject drugs have enough to be able to disinfect used syringes whenever they need to,

Of course, as part of the transaction, people who inject drugs should be advised to never re-use injecting equipment. Cleaning can never provide an absolute guarantee of protection from infection. However, distributing the tablets enables NSP workers to easily open a dialogue about disinfection of equipment and gives people who inject drugs the opportunity to have the means to disinfect previously used equipment with them at all times, which will greatly reduce the risk of syringe reuse.

We are working towards all illicit drug injections being administered with sterile equipment but this is a huge task, and re-use of syringes remains common. At current distribution levels every syringe issued is used an average of 3 times, making workable strategies to encourage disinfection vital in the fight against the spread of BBV’s and bacterial infections.

In a perfect world, all syringes used by people who inject drugs would be previously unused and therefore sterile. But, we should never allow the ‘perfect to be the enemy of the good. Harm reduction is about using pragmatic strategies to ensure the best possible outcomes for drug users in the UK.

We would recommend that 2 tablets are offered at every transaction, so that injecting drug users have access to the equipment they (or their friends) need to clean syringes at all times.

The individual effervescent Chlorine Tablets are based on what is known as a a dry chlorine donor, sodium dichloroisocyanurate (NaDCC). The NaDCC is blended with effervescent components (which ensure it dissolves quickly in water) before being compressed into tablets and put in individual sachets. The result is a fast-dissolving, highly convenient, and accurate alternative to liquid bleach.