Sydney is a sociology PhD student at Harvard University. She is also the former director of operations at The SOAR Initiative, and has given a TEDx talk on harm reduction for beginners.
Recovery from a substance use disorder has traditionally been conflated with “sobriety,” or total abstinence. In reality, many people recover…
Opening employment opportunities to people with prior convictions, often called “second chance hiring,” can be an economically savvy way for…
Indigenous people face persistent disparities in access to harm reduction services in the United States. In response, Native American health…
A constant threat to harm reductionists is that without clear legal protections, their lifesaving work can be criminalized. The recent…
Methadone and buprenorphine are widely prescribed and considered gold-standard medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). Yet despite their proven benefits,…
From New York City to rural Oklahoma and across the world, harm reduction vending machines are gaining popularity. They offer…
As temperatures rise and music festival season kicks into gear across the United States, hundreds of thousands of people will…
Xylazine has emerged as a major adulterant in the unregulated drug supply in recent years. Initially common in certain cities…
Since the Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter (OTC) naloxone in 2023, pharmacies nationwide have stocked their shelves with the…
In 2020, Ohio-based nonprofit the SOAR Initiative launched a pioneering “bad batch” alert system. Its platform allows anyone to submit…