Tag: peer workers

    Community “Bad Batch” Alerts Contrast With Algorithmic OD Prevention

    In 2020, Ohio-based nonprofit the SOAR Initiative launched a pioneering “bad batch” alert system. ...

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    Sydney Sauer

    What Does “Lived Experience” Really Mean?

    Policymakers frequently fail to listen to those they serve, making it impossible to understand ...

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    Julian Buchanan & Oscar Graham

    Urgent Needs Remain in Portland, OR, After 90-Day “Fentanyl Emergency”

    State and city officials have declared the end of a 90-day “fentanyl emergency” in ...

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    Alexander Lekhtman

    New Efforts to Make Top-Level Policy and Research Welcome Drug Users

    As the oft-cited mantra “Nothing about us without us” suggests, the involvement of people ...

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    Brooke Nolan

    “I Want the Same Protection”—Canadian Peer Harm Reduction Workers Unionize

    Like their counterparts in the United States and around the world, Canadian harm reduction ...

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    Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard