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.
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At the University of California, Berkeley, six locations across campus offer students free fentanyl test strips and naloxone. Harm reduction…
Facing right-wing backlash, harm reduction initiatives around Canada have steadily been rolled back. Safer opioid supply (SOS) programs—which provide pharmaceutical-grade…
In 2021, Harm Reduction Michigan (HRMI) began using streetside newspaper-style boxes to station naloxone kits in outdoor spaces where the…
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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,…