Tag: overdose
Wake Up—We Are Dying! A Call to Action From People Who Use Drugs
On International Overdose Awareness Day, we, as people who use drugs from around the ...
Watch: “Not One More!” Harlem Residents on Overdose Deaths
To mark International Overdose Awareness Day, I went out on the streets of Harlem ...
Watch: Cops and a Judge Demand Harm Reduction to Fight Overdose
The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) is a nonprofit organization of current and former ...
What Should “Overdose Awareness” Really Mean?
Fatal overdoses may be slightly declining in the United States, according to preliminary 2018 ...
Latinx New Yorkers Now Hit Hardest by Overdose, Amid Overall NYC Decline
For the first time in seven years, fatal overdoses are declining in New York ...
Five of the Ways Unsanctioned Harm Reduction Continues to Blaze Trails
Unsanctioned grassroots initiatives—from the unofficial to the plain illegal—are both the origins and the ...
How Harm Reduction Is Serving—and Failing—Asian Americans
The “4th wave of the overdose crisis” has arrived, tweeted Brett Giroir, a top ...
Feds Dispute the Efficacy of Safe Consumption Sites at Safehouse Hearing
On August 19 a federal judge in Philadelphia presided over the opening salvo of ...
Lisa’s Legacy: How the Buprenorphine X-Waiver Costs Lives
The young woman paced frantically around the hospital room, dark bags under her bloodshot ...
Man Who Died of OD Was Allegedly “Kicked Out of Treatment for Smoking”
I can’t lose everything,” Paul Reithlinghshoefer told his mother when he relapsed back to ...
