I had my longest OD intervention today; more than 3 1/2 hrs.

A 32 y/o woman came to do a down-shot. When she told me she copped from Philadelphia, I figured it’d have tranq/xylazine (as does some in NY), but this was next-level.

Blood O2 fell to 73%; heart-rate of 45 BPM. (1/4)

Every syringe services programs in #LA came together last month to demand that the government take action in the face of 10,000 Californians overdose deaths - its time for supervised consumption sites with or without #SB57 #TheyTalkWeDie #IOAD22 #CASEP latimes.com/california/sto…

We need more #HarmReduction in prisons and jails in the US, Louisville is showing what we know to be true, people who are incarcerated can save lives if given the proper tools. #Overdose #naloxone Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition VOCAL-KY spectrumnews1.com/ky/bowling-gre…

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Using someone’s *correct* pronouns is not only #harmreduction but also actively helps to drive down risk of suicide.

We’re less than a month away to #HarmRed22 ! PEERNETWORKOFNY still needs your help!

More stellar work from Substance UVic

“The context of criminalization that we are all operating under means that it’s easy for lack of information and stigma to rule the conversation. This post answers some common questions we’ve heard about xylazine…”

substance.uvic.ca/blog/xylazine/

Sexual Freedom Week starts next Monday 9/19! #SFW22

We have a whole week of FREE virtual events planned!

Full schedule and registration: woodhullfoundation.salsalabs.org/2022sfw/index.…

We are launching our sustaining donor campaign to start fundraising for the 2023 year! Traditional grant making, which maintains hierarchy between foundations and grantees, is inadequate for sustaining the work of Project SAFE, a transformative harm reduction group.

On International Sex Workers Rights Day, we recognize that the war on drugs is also a war on many people who engage in sex work.

The criminalization of drugs and of sex work are both cogs in a machine designed to dehumanize & punish vulnerable populations.

We stand together.

New evidence that forced substance use treatment (like other forms of incarceration) causes sharply elevated risk of death post-release, largely from overdose.

Published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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i recently finished derecka's incredible book 'becoming abolitionists' and was reminded that abolition is a project of both dismantling and creating. drug decriminalization is a really clear example of that! (1/n)