Los Angeles Community Health Project
@CommunityHeal17
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We have operated a community based harm reduction program in LA since 1991. Syringe access, healthcare and MAT navigation, education, and advocacy.
Los Angeles
Joined August 2018
Slide from yesterdays event: the US makes up 5% of the worlds population, yet uses 80% of the opiates. Carry Naloxone.
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A participant making roses for our volunteers. So sweet.
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RT @INDCRs: Hotel-Dieu CEO says #OverdosePrevention Sites (#OPS) are 'necessary' for Windsor-Essex via @CBCNews 🍁 #….
cbc.ca
Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announced it would not approve any new overdose prevention sites Friday. It's a decision which Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare CEO Janice Kaffer disagrees...
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RT @picardonhealth: More time wasted debating #harmreduction’s merits will mean more Canadians lost to the #opioids epidemic: @globeandmai….
theglobeandmail.com
Conservative politicians in this country have long displayed an ideological aversion to harm reduction, seemingly rooted in a misguided belief that it legitimizes drug use
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Today: Hepatitis C screenings, Fentanyl testing strips, OD trainings and Naloxone, syringe access, linkage to care. See you there.
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RT @ToxPharmD: Even smart kids can make bad decisions. Talk to your pharmacist and get naloxone.
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We are torn over this.
Question for my fellow harm reductionists - given new study suggesting that calling them "Overdose Prevention Sites" may make Supervised Injection Facilities/Safer Consumption Spaces more palatable, do you think it would be helpful to start calling them that?.
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RT @StreetHealthTO: Saving lives is a moral imperative, not a political opinion. via @torontostar.
thestar.com
Now that the bodies are indeed piling up, and the evidence remains that safe injection and overdose prevention sites are cost-effective, there should be no reason to prevent these emergency services...
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In 2016, the CDC reported that overall life expectancy in the U.S. had dropped due to the surge of deaths caused by opioid overdose.
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Labor Day is coming up, so this next class will be September 10th.
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Random reminder to pdx peeps, if someone is drug or alcohol affected in a way that is not an emergency, call CHIERS! 5032388132. They have other options and they are great.
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RT @gilliankolla: The 7 deaths that police are warning about occurred in 14 division, which includes Parkdale. The MOH blocked the opening….
cbc.ca
Toronto police have issued a public safety warning about a batch of dangerous opioids they believe are being sold in the downtown core after seven people died from drug overdoses over the past 12...
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