National Harm Reduction Coalition
@HarmReduction
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NHRC promotes the health and dignity of those impacted by drug use. Follow us on Bluesky! https://t.co/qOZMc1WW91
New York, NY | Oakland, CA
Joined June 2009
🧵“The study found that police drug seizures were associated with increases in fatal overdose in the surrounding geographic area in the three weeks following enforcement, possibly by leading people [who use drugs] to take greater risks when they tried to.
brown.edu
A new study highlights an unintended consequence of interventions to combat the country’s illicit opioid epidemic, emphasizing the need to include harm reduction strategies as part of a comprehensive...
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@latimes on opioids or meth — thus excluding the population most likely to die.". #HarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #OverdoseEpidemic #ClimateJustice #ClimateJusticeNow #EndHomelessness #Housing #HousingIsAHumanRight #HousingNotHandcuffs #OverdosePrevention #EndOverdose.
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to life-saving care & shelter. Via @latimes: "In theory, public cooling centers should help many — especially the unhoused — avoid the worst effects of increasing heat. But as Moseley and other experts note, many cooling centers probably do not allow in anyone who is obviously. .
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🧵#ClimateChange has direct impacts on all people, including people who use drugs. Heat waves & other extreme weather events exacerbate #Overdoses & other #PublicHealth issues, particularly for unhoused folks. People who use drugs face layers of barriers.
latimes.com
Recent L.A. County reports show overdose deaths are down, but a troubling trend is that over the last decade, a bulk of deaths occurred in the summer months.
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🧵Trabajando en colaboración con socios y utilizando aprendizajes de los programas de servicios de jeringas/jeringuillas (#SSPs), desarrollamos una hoja informativa que describe como los SSPs pueden facilitar el acceso a la buprenorfina para las personas.
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In case you missed it: Check out our latest fact sheets!. #Treatment #MOUD #Bupe #Buprenorphine #SSPs #SyringeServicesPrograms #SyringeExchange #HarmReduction.
🧵Working with partners & using insights from #SyringeServicesPrograms (#SSPs), we developed a fact sheet that outlines how SSPs can make #Buprenorphine accessible for participants interested in taking the medication.
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services,” Director of Federal Affairs at @DrugPolicyOrg Maritza Perez Medina told @Talkingdrugs. #HarmReductionSavesLives #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #Treatment #SyringeExchange #SSPs #Overdose #OverdosePrevention #PreventOverdose #OPCs #OverdosePreventionCenters #EndOverdose.
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“It’s alarming that cities implementing proven, lifesaving interventions could be punished for doing exactly what public health demands — while the federal government pours billions into enforcement and prisons, and slashes funding for healthcare, housing, and mental health. .
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🧵Our communities need & deserve #HarmReduction, a life-saving set of evidence-backed approaches to ending the #OverdoseEpidemic. Overdoses are preventable, & each overdose is a policy failure. We cannot go backward.
talkingdrugs.org
A recent executive order by Trump may end harm reduction funding and forcibly detain homeless people and people who use drugs.
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Happening today! Join us for this free learning opportunity ⬇️. #HarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #Tobacco #TobaccoHarmReduction #Smoking #SmokingCessation #Vaping #Treatment #SSPs #SyringeServices #SyringeExchange #THR #BodyAutonomy #BodilyAutonomy #HealthCareIsAHumanRight.
🧵#TobaccoHarmReduction (#THR) saves lives, yet is often overlooked in the #HarmReduction movement & other interconnected #PublicHealth spaces. Join us for a free training where we'll share principles of harm reduction & its application to.
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unhoused folks who already face many dangers. What we need to save lives, improve public health, and make entire communities safer is [to] focus on and invest in evidence-based solutions, including housing and health care — not handcuffs and budget cuts.”. #HarmReduction.
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🧵As named by NHRC Executive Director Laura Guzman via @WordInBlack, “This deadly executive order threatens the safety and civil rights of millions of people with mental health and/or substance use disorders and other people who use drugs, as well as.
wordinblack.com
Black folks were poised to benefit from a downward trend in overdoses. Thanks to the Trump administration, a reversal may be about to happen.
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Coming up soon! ⬇️.
TODAY at 1PM! Looking forward to this webinar hosted by @NYHFoundation on the #Overdose crisis ft. @TheNBHRN Exec. Director @TracieMGardner and @DPA_NY State Director, Toni Smith. #EndOverdoseNY 💜🖤💜🖤. REGISTER HERE⤵️.
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Image ID 2/2: left, smaller black font at bottom middle reads, “Sept. 26” & “12 p.m. — 2 p.m. ET”.
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Image ID 1/2: Over blue gradient, conversation bubbles in white & black w/ patterns @ top right read, “FOUNDATIONAL FRIDAYS.” Below this, between black box outline, bold, all caps black copy reads, “OUTREACH 101”. Some words are highlighted in yellow. NHRC white logo @ bottom.
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The session will cover best practices for outreach work, including communication techniques, boundaries, & #CulturalHumility. #HarmReductionSavesLives #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #HealthCareIsAHumanRight #PreventOverdose #OverdosePrevention #OverdoseEpidemic #EndOverdose.
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grounded in harm reduction principles. Attendees will review essential safety practices for themselves & their coworkers & explore strategies for building trust & engaging meaningfully w/ individuals in community settings.
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🧵#HarmReduction #Outreach provides life-saving connections & community building through trust, shared expertise, & listening with empathy. Join us for September's free Foundational Fridays session, where we'll introduce the fundamentals of effective outreach,
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Image ID 4/4: services.” Over black border at bottom, white and hot pink font reads, “Aug. 26, 2025 2 p.m. — 4 p.m. ET” and “. NHRC white and purple/pink gradient logo toward bottom right.
us06web.zoom.us
Training description: Tobacco harm reduction (THR) is an essential yet often overlooked component of comprehensive harm reduction and substance use recovery and treatment services. As peer recovery...
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