🧵We cannot lose momentum in life-saving #HarmReduction work. This @vtdigger.bsky.social piece points to the decline in #Overdose deaths, made possible by harm reduction & interconnected care. "Our treatment, our intervention, our harm reduction, our recovery services, those are bit.ly/VTODRatesDown

Overdose deaths in Vermont drop by 25% in 2025 - VTDigger

“Our treatment, our intervention, our harm reduction, our recovery services, those are working,” said Vermont Department of Health Interim Deputy Commissioner Shayla Livingston.

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🧵The sex workers murdered by Rex Heuermann should be here today. Sex workers are not disposable, & we must work collectively to end the violence, harassment, & dangerous stigma that allows this abuse to exist & steal lives. As penned via @rewirenewsgroup.com, bit.ly/SexWorkersAreNotDisposable

Sex Workers Remember Victims of Gilgo Beach Killer: ‘Our Sisters’ (Updated) – Rewire News Group

Opinion: The media portrays sex workers as a plot point in Rex Heuermann’s story. But we know violent men, and public conversations should center our voices.

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Coming up next week! We hope you'll join us for the first session, and many more to come. #HarmReduction #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #TraumaInformedCare #BodilyAutonomy #BodyAutonomy #QueerHarmReduction #HCV #HCVPrevention #HepatitisC #PREP #HarmReductionSavesLives #WarOnDrugs

National Harm Reduction Coalition@harmreduction.org · 2w ago

🧵NHRC's Lighthouse Learning Collective @hrc-lighthouse.bsky.social has updated 2 October sessions on Oct. 2 & Oct. 9! Check out the updated details below. We hope you'll join us for these free sessions starting next month that will focus on a range of topics, including... campsite.bio/harmreduction

🧵 People who use drugs & other harm reductionists have long supported one another, creating a safety net where there would otherwise be none. The @mprnews.org coverage below, which references NHRC, shares glimpses of the life-saving work #SyringeServicesPrograms ( #SSPs) do. bit.ly/NeighborsCare

Across north Minneapolis, neighbors help neighbors survive the opioid crisis

An overdose response network of healthcare providers, community coalitions, a fire station and neighbors equipped with naloxone saw opioid-related emergency room visits decline in north Minneapolis in...

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🧵 Disabled communities have been demanding & creating a more accessible world long before #DisabilityPrideMonth was recognized, & have honored the interconnected liberation of all people even when overlooked or ignored. Together, our communities will break down barriers that stand in the way of...

🧵NHRC Executive Director Laura Guzman participated in the first National #OpioidSettlement Conference in Denver, Colorado, where she joined harm reductionists along w/ staff from attorneys general offices. The conference included a panel by Baltimore’s Restitution Advisory Board (RAB) focusing...

🧵Layers of stigma & inaccessible #HealthCare continue to be barriers for many people who use drugs, which can force people into environments where there is less support. Mobile services can help fill that gap, though stigma remains a hurdle. bit.ly/AppalachianMobileSyringeServices

Appalachians Want to Use Mobile Syringe Programs, If They're Discreet

“Everybody knows everybody," Dr. Alexander Elswick told Filter, "and anonymity is so much more of a concern.”

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Health care access & quality shouldn't depend on your address. To eliminate #HepatitisC, the health & well-being of communities must be invested in, including through scaling up life-saving #HarmReduction services & programs. #EndHepC #HCV #HarmReductionIsHealthCare bit.ly/EliminateHepC

Bipartisan bill to eliminate hepatitis C unveiled in House

​A bipartisan pair of House members is introducing legislation aimed at treating millions of Americans of a deadly-but-curable liver disease, the culmination of a yearslong push from public health adv...

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🧵NHRC's Lighthouse Learning Collective @hrc-lighthouse.bsky.social has updated 2 October sessions on Oct. 2 & Oct. 9! Check out the updated details below. We hope you'll join us for these free sessions starting next month that will focus on a range of topics, including... campsite.bio/harmreduction

Happening tomorrow! ⬇️

Helen Redmond@helenredmond.bsky.social · 2w ago

luma.com/rsi-tobacco-... Register now and join us tomorrow @harmreduction.org @pnhpnymetro.bsky.social @drugpolicy.org

🧵There must be a balance that prioritizes folks' immediate health needs along w/ information gathering, while focusing on what people who use drugs have been demanding all along: #CareNotCriminalization. While data can be crucial in addressing the... bit.ly/WastewaterTestingCautions

Cities and Schools Are Testing Wastewater for Illicit Drugs

The White House recently endorsed monitoring sewage for evidence of drug use. Critics fear such efforts could violate privacy and stigmatize neighborhoods.

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🧵 #TobaccoHarmReduction is often overlooked in services & programs, despite the overlap in people who smoke or have smoked & people who use drugs. This piece in @filtermag.bsky.social, in which NHRC is referenced, names the importance of integrating more resources for... bit.ly/THRInServices

Growing Calls to Integrate Tobacco Harm Reduction Into Drug Services

“We can't talk about harm reduction without tobacco harm reduction,” says one service provider. The need among people who use drugs is acute.

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July 21 marks #ZeroHIVStigmaDay — a day to recommit ourselves to dismantling the stigma that has cost too many lives and continues to prevent people from getting the care they need. Together, we honor those we've lost and uplift those living with HIV today.

🧵NHRC's Director of Capacity Building & Community Mobilization, Mike Selick, joined fellow panelists @housingworksnyc.bsky.social to talk about the history of advocacy & associated plan to eliminate #HepatitisC in New York — & how we can collectively move this work forward. At the panel moderated...

🧵 #NationalHIVPreventionDay serves as a reminder of how imperative it is folks have access to #Housing & #SyringeServices programs ( #SSPs) — & programs' ability to serve people by meeting folks where they're at without additional roadblocks. This @bangordailynews.bsky.social.. bit.ly/HIVOutbreakME

Bangor homeless camp closure disrupted response to HIV outbreak, CDC says

The federal agency’s draft report is the first comprehensive outside look at the local response since the HIV outbreak began in 2023.

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🧵NHRC's Lighthouse Learning Collective @hrc-lighthouse.bsky.social is back w/ more webinars! Starting next month, these free sessions will focus on a range of topics, including #TraumaInformed care, queer #HarmReduction, #PrEP/PEP 101, & more. Register & learn more: campsite.bio/harmreduction

🧵When the health & well-being of communities is invested in, lives are saved & the impact is broad. This coverage looks at declines in #Overdoses in Massachusetts, which were made possible by #HarmReduction. Via @wgbh.org, Health and Human Services Secretary Kiame... bit.ly/MAODRatesDecline

Mass. opioid overdose deaths fall to lowest level since since 2013

Overdose deaths, which claimed more 2,000 lives annually between 2016 and 2023, reached a record high of 2,364 in 2022.

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🧵Our health is intertwined, & restrictions on #HealthCare are detrimental. #SyringeServicesPrograms ( #SSPs) save lives, prevent the spread of #HIV & #HepatitisC, improve #CommunityHealth, & cut down on needle litter in public spaces — yet N.H. has a new law that makes.. bit.ly/NHSyringeExchangeLaw

New Hampshire law targets public needle disposal - Valley News

Gov. Kelly Ayotte signs bill requiring needle exchange programs to report needle disposal rates, aiming to reduce public litter and promote public health.

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Today's the day! Join us for the panel this evening. #HarmReduction #Hepatitis #HepC #HarmReductionSavesLives #HepatitisC #HepCULater #Prevention #Outreach #HepatitisAwareness #EndOverdose

National Harm Reduction Coalition@harmreduction.org · last mo.

🧵NHRC’s Director of Capacity Building & Community Mobilization, Mike Selick, will join fellow panelists for a conversation facilitated by @housingworksnyc.bsky.social about the intersection of #HarmReduction & #HepatitisC elimination July 13 in NYC. The event bit.ly/HarmReductionAndEliminatingHepC

🧵 #Treatment must be voluntary, proven effective through evidence, & not contingent on a person's faith — though we honor the importance of faith in many folks' individual journeys. NHRC's Executive Director Laura Guzman shared w/ @thinkglobalhealth.org, an initiative bit.ly/TreatmentBestPractices

Trump's Faith-Based Push Threatens Standard Addiction Treatment | Think Global Health

Experts say the U.S. government's backing of religious and spiritual drug treatment ignores well-established evidence

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🧵Just days ago, Oklahoma's law allowing organizations to distribute life-saving health supplies expired after the groups reached nearly 9,000 people in need. "Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. said sterile syringe programs boil down to a simple question: 'Do we... bit.ly/SSPsInOK

“More People Sick or Dying”: After Five Years of Sterile Syringe Distributions, Harm Reduction Law Set to Expire - Oklahoma Watch

Oklahoma's law protecting harm-reduction organizations from criminal prosecution for distributing sterile syringes expires July 1, effectively ending a program that distributed 1.25 million syringes a...

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🧵We all deserve the freedom to make decisions about our own bodies & live authentically without violence, harassment, or fear — in a world where we have our health & other life-affirming needs met, our #HumanRights respected, & our well-being cared for. On July 4 & every day after, we'll continue...

In case you missed it: Join us later this month! #HarmReduction #Hepatitis #HepC #HarmReductionSavesLives #HepatitisC #HepCULater #Prevention #Outreach #HepatitisAwareness #EndOverdose

National Harm Reduction Coalition@harmreduction.org · last mo.

🧵NHRC’s Director of Capacity Building & Community Mobilization, Mike Selick, will join fellow panelists for a conversation facilitated by @housingworksnyc.bsky.social about the intersection of #HarmReduction & #HepatitisC elimination July 13 in NYC. The event bit.ly/HarmReductionAndEliminatingHepC

🧵 #HarmReduction saves lives, & no one is disposable. The U.S. has not made a meaningful investment in harm reduction programs & services, & is now moving backward in collectively funding these life-saving services. The harm reduction movement needs more support to... bit.ly/MNBeyondHarmReduction

Harm reduction saves lives. That might not be good enough.

In Duluth, Harm Reduction Sisters provides life-saving equipment for people in crisis. But its future is uncertain.

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Trabajando en colaboración con socios y utilizando aprendizajes de #SSPs, desarrollamos una hoja informativa que muestra como los SSPs hacen los servicios clínicos más accesibles para sus participantes.

National Harm Reduction Coalition@harmreduction.org · 2mo ago

🧵Trabajando en colaboración con socios y utilizando aprendizajes de #SSPs, desarrollamos una hoja informativa que muestra como los SSPs hacen los servicios clínicos más accesibles para sus participantes. Acceda a las hojas informativas aquí para obtener más...

#SyringeServicesPrograms (#SSPs) provide an array of health services and connect folks to additional care and voluntary treatment. Learn more about how SSPS make clinical services accessible through our new fact sheets below!

National Harm Reduction Coalition@harmreduction.org · 2mo ago

🧵Working w/ partners and gaining insights from #SyringeServicesPrograms (SSPs), we developed a fact sheet outlining how #SSPs make clinical services more accessible for program participants. Swipe for a preview & check it out here: bit.ly/ClinicalServicesWithinSSPs Also available...

🧵 When life-saving #HarmReduction programs' funding is in limbo, lives are on the line. Federal policy shifts have a ripple effect on organizations providing essential health care, including Queen City Harm Reduction in NC where Lauren Kestner serves as director. bit.ly/HarmReductionProgramsInLimbo

Mixed federal messages on drug checking leave North Carolina harm reduction programs in limbo

Public health workers say new restrictions on drug-checking supplies come as street drugs become more contaminated and unpredictable.

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Pride Month may be closing out, though Pride is forever.

National Harm Reduction Coalition@harmreduction.org · 2mo ago

🧵As we celebrate the resiliency, joy, & profoundness of our beloved #LGBTQIA+ community this #PrideMonth, we're working against the violence that steals the lives of our loved ones, harmful rhetoric, & stripping away of LGBTQIA+ protections to #HealthCare rights. #HarmReduction, a movement started..

🧵Together, we'll continue working to ensure a future where the drug #OverdoseEpidemic is treated as the #PublicHealth issue it is. We deserve a world where everyone has what they need to support their health & #BodilyAutonomy is respected. Check out the "Support. Don't Punish." campaign from...

🧵NHRC is excited to launch 2 additional Spanish online modules free for NYC residents, LGB/TGNCNB (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual/Transgender, Gender Non-conforming, Non-binary) 101 & #Stigma 101! These modules are self-paced & take approximately 90 minutes to complete. bit.ly/NHRCNYC.