About

Maine Access Points (MAP) is a harm reduction organization, providing syringe access services, overdose prevention education and naloxone distribution, peer support, and advocacy throughout rural Maine. We do this through networks of community distribution and collective organizing.

Mission

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Our Values:

• We believe that all people have the right to access health care and meet their basic needs

• We believe that people are the experts of their lives and have the right to choice and self-determination

• We believe that all people have the right to safety and respect

• We believe in ground-up, collective organizing

• We hold ourselves accountable to the communities we work within

• We recognize the impact of the war on drugs on all people, but especially communities of color

• We hold critical hope that all people can heal from the injustices and trauma they have experienced

• We commit to creating a world that rejects and deconstructs all forms of hate and oppression and we commit to reflecting on our own internalized oppression

• We believe people have the right to naloxone, sterile injection supplies, and safe injection spaces

• We believe that people do not have to die from their drug use