HIT delivers effective interventions on drugs, community safety and other public health concerns. We produce publications, run mass media campaigns, deliver training, organise conferences and provide consultancy to individuals, community groups, health and social care and criminal justice agencies locally, nationally and at an international level.
HIT, formerly the Mersey Drug Training and Information Centre, was established in 1985 to reduce drug-related harm and set up one of the UK’s first syringe exchange schemes. Based in Liverpool, the organisation has an international reputation for developing, advocating and implementing a pragmatic and effective approach to the use of drugs.
HIT
Provides a wide range of training courses that helps develop the competence and confidence needed to work with drug users in line with DANOS
Organises events from intimate seminars to national conferences
Uses social marketing techniques to develop leaflets, posters and resources for PSHE education providers
Provides consultancy that helps professionals improve the planning, commissioning and delivery of interventions
Our Work Includes:
Encouraging safer injecting practices to prevent the spread of HIV and blood-borne viruses (BBVs)
Mat has worked in the drugs and HIV fields as a practitioner, manager and activist for 30 years. Mat was an early harm reduction worker in the UK and in 1991 founded the pioneering Healthy Options Team (HOT), a harm reduction agency that employed peer workers and used community mobilisation strategies with people who use drugs (PWUD).