Harm Reduction Coalition Announces Rebrand with Creative Agency Joybyte For more than 25 years, Harm Reduction Coalition has promoted the health and dignity of people who use drugs and redistributing resources and power to people impacted by structural violence. Harm Reduction Coalition’s work is groundbreaking and after 25 years, it’s time for a new ... Celebrating 25 Years of Movement Building
National Harm Reduction Coalition has been selected by the California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS to lead the California Harm Reduction Initiative (CHRI — pronounced “cheery”) with funding from the California Budget Act of 2019. The initiative will support an expansion of services and staffing at syringe service programs (SSPs), as well as ... Harm Reduction Coalition Selected to Lead $15.2 Million California Harm Reduction Initiative
August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day. People across the globe have organized community events to fight, to build and to grieve for those who are no longer with us. Harm Reduction Coalition fights, builds and grieves with them. We have all lost too many parents, children, siblings, friends and neighbors. Overdose is the leading ... Ending the Overdose Crisis Will Take All of Us
The DOPE Project was built on a strong legacy of harm reduction efforts in San Francisco as well as other cities (Santa Cruz, California; Chicago, Illinois), States (New Mexico), and countries (Australia, England, Canada). In 1993, youth outreach workers in San Francisco first distributed overdose prevention education flyers developed by the Santa Cruz Needle ... The History of The Drug Overdose Prevention & Education (DOPE) Project
Greetings Beloved Harm Reduction Community: Today marks the 19th anniversary of International Overdose Awareness Day, a global event held on August 31st each year that aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of drug-related death. Harm Reduction Coalition is proud to be part of a community that acknowledges the grief felt ... International Overdose Awareness Day 2018
Beloved Harm Reduction Family, When we received the news of Dan Bigg’s passing yesterday morning, time stood still for a brief moment. Photo by Luceo Over the past 24 hours, we’ve watched and taken part in the grief that is rolling through our community because of how much he touched our lives. Dan was one ... Remembering Dan Bigg
Written by Savannah O’Neill and Eliza Wheeler A recent story covered by KTVU , East Bay Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle details an incident where two Alameda County Sheriff’s department personnel experienced the effects of “fentanyl exposure.” The articles vary greatly in their accounts of what drugs were present at the scene and ... Myths and Misinformation About Law Enforcement and Fentanyl Exposure
We interviewed a number of influential harm reduction and drug policy reform advocates from across the country. These are the people who are working against incredible odds, are largely unrecognized and serve as inspiration to the wider harm reduction community. Our aim is to amplify hope by telling their stories, uplift the people and programs ... Amplifying Hope: Unsung Champions of Harm Reduction
Drug Overdose Mortality Rate Increased 66% Citywide in the Past Year with a 51% Increase in Overdose Deaths Among Latinos New York, NY – On International Overdose Awareness Day, Harm Reduction Coalition and the Peer Network of New York call attention to the need for great overdose prevention efforts in communities of color. NYC Department ... International Overdose Awareness Day 2016
Image Description] Harm Reduction Coalition staff pictured with NYS DOCCS Commissioner, NYS DOCCS Chief Medical Officer, Queensboro Correctional Facility Superintendent, NYSDOH Executive Deputy Commissioner and NYSDOH Director of AIDS Institute. We are the recipients of an award from the New York State Commissioner of Health for partnering with the Department of Corrections to prevent ... Award-Winning Overdose Prevention
Today thousands of people across the country and around the world commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day. For too many of us, this is a day of grieving for those we have lost. But it is also a day of hope, in recognition of the tens of thousands of lives that have been saved from overdose, ... International Overdose Awareness Day 2015
CDC today released new figures showing a dramatic rise in heroin use and overdose deaths. Over the past decade, rates of heroin use increased by over 60%, while heroin overdose deaths nearly quadrupled, climbing by a staggering 286%. In 2013 alone, over 8,200 people died from a heroin overdose. These trends affect people ... CDC Sounds Alarm on Staggering Rise in Heroin Use and Overdose Deaths
