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Name: Rodger Wright Centre
Organisation: DISC Trust
Service Location: 27 Cashel  Street
City: Christchurch
Postal: PO Box 22-478 Christchurch
Phone: 03 365 2293
Fax: 03 365 2508
Email: rwc@xtra.co.nz
Website:http://www.rwc.org.nz/  
Manager: Maggie Treweek
Operational Hours:
24 hours/7days
Office hours:
Mon-Fri 9am to 10pm
Saturday 11am to 10pm
Sunday 12pm to 10pm
Public Holidays 12pm to 8pm
Electronic Dispenser: All non office hours

Services:
Outreach Service; Specialised workers offer help and advice for people who inject drugs, operates office hours only.
Magazine: Regular bi-monthly peer based harm reduction based magazine for injecting drug users called "Mainline"
Electronic Dispenser; Provides service access outside normal office hours. Products include a variety of injection equipment, wheel filters, sterile water, tourniquets, returns containers and condoms.An Access Code is required to use this service, the code is curently: 6666. The dispenser operates on gold coins only i.e. $1 and $2 coins ONLY. Returns discounts are not available when using the dispenser and prices of equipment are higher than those charged through the office in order to cover the operational costs of the dispenser service.

New Brighton Needle Exchange                                                                                                                                       Service Location: 108 Seaview Road, New Brighton                                                                                                   Phone: 03 388 0726                                                                                                                                                             Fax: 03 388 0727                                                                                                                                                                  Email:nbrwc@xtra.co.nz                                                                                                                                                     Services: Referrals and advice on IDU related issues. Health and harm reduction education.                                                                                                                                                             
Exchange Hours:
Monday to Friday: 10:00am till 7:00pm.                                                                           
Weekends and Public Holidays Closed   

West Coast Outreach Service.                                                                                                                      
Services:
Bi-monthly cycles, the Rodger Wright Centre, Christchurch, distributes harm reduction kits and information to key contacts on the West Coast. During the run, the Rodger Wright Centre picks up all used equipment and it is brought back to Christchurch for destruction.                                                                          
Phone:
 03 365 2293                                                                                                                                                             Phone/Text:027 343 9023                                                                                                                                                 Email:outreach@rwc.org.nz                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                                                            

 

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