Tracey Helton Mitchell

Tracey is an activist, advocate, writer, public health professional and mother. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Memories of Silk Road, the Drug Marketplace We Used for Safer Supply

In a somewhat unexpected move by President Donald Trump, on January 21 he issued a full pardon to Silk Road…

February 14, 2025

What I Tell My Kids About My History of Drug Use

The most chaotic period of my life was partly captured on film, for a documentary about heroin addiction. This once…

December 18, 2024

San Francisco Drug Users Face Soaring Deaths. Solidarity Can Sustain Us.

My stomach was churning frantically as I lay strapped to a gurney in San Francisco General Hospital that day in…

December 15, 2020