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Overdose Prevention Scheme Gives Users Shopping Vouchers

VIDEO – BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY – Oct. 5, 2022 - One of the voucher recipients is Kevin Whittaker, 44. He’s been using class-A drugs since his late 30s. He said: “I’ll see what shop I’m passing at the time an... Read More...

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Hospitals have specialists on call for lots of disorders – but not addiction

DUH, GOOD IDEA, YA THINK? – Sept. 30, 2022 - At many hospitals in Massachusetts and across the country, Marie would likely have been discharged anyway, while still in the pain of withdrawal. Perhaps she would l... Read More...

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Big Drop Seen in Treatment Admissions During Pandemic

THERE’S ALWAYS AA and HARM REDUCTION – Sept. 26, 2022 - For the study, his team looked at admissions for substance use disorder treatment between 2017 and 2019, the years just before the pandemic, and du... Read More...

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Treatment Center’s Push to Save Lives With Methadone

BUT HARD TO GET? – Sept. 20, 2022 - “I was so close to death, on my death bed from endocarditis, from fentanyl, that had I not made the move I did, I would be dead today,” Detzel said. “So it was life or... Read More...

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Controversial Harm Reduction Strategies Slow Drug Deaths

AUDIO – GIVE AND LET LIVE – Sept. 15, 2022 - Yeah. Addiction care has gotten better in the U.S. - better therapies, better medications. But getting that kind of quality treatment is still super hard in most of ... Read More...

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Why Governor Newsom Must Pass SB999 by Joan Borsten

AND HOW YOU CAN HELP – Aug. 25, 2022 - Back in the day, when my husband Oleg Vidov and I owned Malibu Beach Recovery Center (“MBRC”)we, like others in the addiction community were “stalked” by Dr. Timothy J... Read More...

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Governor Gavin Newsom Vetoes Drug-Injection Sites in California

NO CLEAN NEEDLES FOR YOU – Aug. 22, 2022 - Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation on Monday that would have allowed some California cities to open supervised drug-injection sites as part of a pilot program... Read More...

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Harm Reduction Gets a Naloxone of Its Own

OFF BRAND OFF HEROIN – Aug. 1, 2022 - The naloxone itself is the same as what Hikma already manufactures, but has its own National Drug Code designating it as a new product with the FDA. Remedy Alliance is the ... Read More...

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Officials Push for Gov. Newsom to Approve Safe Consumption Sites

VIDEO – TIME FOR DEATH REDUCTION – Aug. 10, 2022 - People would be able to bring drugs into these sites and use them while a trained supervisor monitors them for symptoms of overdose. These supervisors w... Read More...

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Dee Taylor-John Celebrating 5 Years Advocates for Education, Healing

VIDEO – WOUNDED HEALER AT WORK – July 29, 2022 - Harm reduction plays a major role in supporting community members experiencing a substance use disorder, said Brandon-based Solange Machado, network co-or... Read More...

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Maine Students Want To End Stigma With New Series

VIDEO – NEVER STOP TRYING – June 8, 2022 - “I think everybody should learn from this because substance use is a very important topic. We want to make sure that people understand how this not only affects them p... Read More...

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British Columbia To Decriminalize Drug Possession

THE SANEST PLACE ON EARTH – June 1, 2022 - “The shocking number of lives lost to the overdose crisis requires bold actions and significant policy change. I have thoroughly reviewed and carefully considered bot... Read More...

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Normalizing Drug Addiction Leads to More Overdoses?

HARM REDUCTION WORKS – June 3, 2022 - Whether it’s the safe-injection sites in Harlem and Brooklyn or the decriminalization of cocaine and opioid possession in British Columbia (announced this week), advocates ... Read More...

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Israel Cason, Founder Of Treatment Program, Dies

AUDIO – OF SUPREME SERVICE – March 13, 2022 - He also joined the Fruit of Islam in the Nation of Islam and worked in its local bakery. But after the death of Elijah Muhammad, he resumed drug use. That lifest... Read More...

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Will There Ever Be a ‘Cure’ for Addiction?

IN OUR DREAMS? – March 7, 2022 - Drug addiction involves changes in the brain, and those changes are in brain circuits that we use for everyday life—for seeking food and shelter, procreating our species, avoidi... Read More...

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‘Devastating’: London Addiction Recovery Centre to Shut

NO SALVATION? – Feb. 25, 2022 - That means many London-area residents seeking help with long-term addiction must go back to waiting months for a treatment centre bed while remaining in the same circumstances e... Read More...

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What Is Harm Reduction?

DEATH PREVENTION – Feb. 25, 2022 - Other harm reduction objectives include decreasing the stigma associated with addiction, increasing education on safer substance use, encouraging protected sex, and connecting... Read More...

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White House Plan Would Spend $41 Billion On Drug Policy

THAT’S A LOT OF DOPE – March 2, 2022 - Biden’s 2022 proposed budget provides a total of $17.5 billion for drug trafficking supply reduction efforts. The Biden policy to combat drug addiction and overdoses call... Read More...

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‘Crack pipes’ Are Not the Problem — Stigmatizing Harm Reduction Is

NO MORE SHAME – Feb. 17, 2022 - I know that safer use supplies keep people safe, that’s why I was so disgusted to see misdirected outrage in response to the federal government finally providing funding to harm ... Read More...

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Amid a Surge in Deaths, a Safe Place to Get High

HARM REDUCTION SAVES LIVES – Feb. 23, 2022 - Kristina Peterson anxiously tapped the heels of her boots on the tile floor inside the brightly lit lobby. Moments earlier, she had given her date of birth to an int... Read More...

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Navigating Grief As A Result of Substance Abuse

HEART ACHE FOREVER – Feb. 24, 2022 - But on December 19th Jenna received a phone call that her sister was cold and unresponsive on the floor ... “I also knew that she had that watch on but it didn’t alwa... Read More...

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CDC To Soften Opioid Prescription Guidelines

VIDEO – GOING BACKWARDS? – Feb. 12, 2022 - Opioids can be an important tool in treating severe pain from cancer, surgery and serious injuries. But they also can be addictive — even when used under doctors’ ord... Read More...

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Can ‘Safe’ Injection Sites Make a Difference?

IS ICE CREAM COLD? – Feb. 17, 2022 - This month, drug-policy experts also flagged the Department of Justice’s decision to revisit the federal government’s opposition to a safe drug-injection site in Philadelphi... Read More...

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Fake ‘crack pipe’ Story Hurts Battle Against Addiction

A CRACK IN THE STORY – Feb. 15, 2022 - It started with a story in the Washington Free Beacon that falsely said a federal Department of Health and Human Services grant was handing out free “crack pipes” to Black... Read More...

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Biden Administration Is Not Giving Out Crack Pipes

AUDIO – IT’S SO 1980s – Feb. 9, 2022 - “These comments are misleading and misinformed,” an HHS spokesperson told McClatchy News in a statement about the crack pipe claims that have sparked some outrage online. ... Read More...

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New York Plans to Install ‘Vending Machines’ With Anti-Overdose Drugs

HARM REDUCTION – Jan. 8, 2022 - This is really about expanding access to health and wellness services,” he said of the initiative, a $730,000 pilot program seeking up to six contractors. The main purpose of... Read More...

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Decreasing Opioid Deaths, Not With Abstinence, But Harm Reduction

THE EASIER, SANER WAY? – Dec. 10, 2021 - “It doesn’t address the underlying condition. It’s not preventing ongoing conditions, it’s just allowing life to be saved and reducing harm.” Harm reduction workers, su... Read More...

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Drug Czar: It’s Time to Treat Addiction Like a Chronic Disease

AND NOT A CRIME – Dec. 8, 2021 - And that support means approaching addiction and substance use not as a moral decision, but as a chronic relapsing brain disease. “It’s no different than many of the other c... Read More...

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SAMHSA Announces Unprecedented $30 Million Harm Reduction Grants

MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING? – Dec. 8, 2021- SAMHSA will distribute $10 million per year over the next three years. Grant recipients must use the funds to support harm reduction services. Harm reduction service p... Read More...

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Nan Goldin Is No Longer Focused on the Sackler Family

MORE HARM REDUCTION – Oct. 19, 2021 - PAIN now calls attention to syringe service programs under siege, and legislation to decriminalize syringes. Rather than focus its energies on deplatforming wealthy art in... Read More...

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