Harm Reduction
Harm Reduction
Below the Skin: AIDS Activism and the Art of Clean Needles Now
This article “draws attention to the particular role of artists in [the first Clean Needles Now exchange’s] early years.” The author discusses his experience with CNN and how it “had a profound impact on the way I practice both art and politics,” and how CNN “refused the crippling opposition between direct action and direct service.”
Dont Rhine
Destigmatize, Decriminalize, Decarcerate: A Racial Justice Lens on Sex Worker Rights and Harm Reduction
Raani Begum and Sultana Bibi, with contributions from Jen Bowles
This essay expresses the issues that Philadelphia Red Umbrella Alliance and Project Safe advocate for and why “sex work and drug use are not inherently harmful activities. The harm of sex work and drug use comes from policing, settler colonialism, and white supremacy.”
Diversion from Justice: A Rights-Based Analysis of Local “Prostitution Diversion Programs” and their Impacts on People in the Sex Sector in the United States
This article examines “prostitution diversion programs” and “takes as its starting point a skepticism of criminal justice system involvement in the management and provision of social services, particularly when the communities forced into its gates […] are deeply marginalized and disempowered by the same state touting its beneficence.”
Amy Kapczynski
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Do You Every Use Drugs Alone?: A Guide for People Who Use Drugs, by People Who Use Drugs
“People who use drugs amid the overdose crisis are experts and pioneers in overdose prevention strategies. Sharing survival strategies is how [people who use drugs] stay as safe as [they] can in a world that harms [them] through stigmatization and the War on Drugs.”
Project SAFE
Fentanyl Audio Training
"Learn more about the ineffective and immoral class-wide scheduling of Fentanyl and Fentanyl analogues in this short training, as well as proven solutions to save lives and end preventable overdose deaths."
Ellen Glover
Harm Reduction is Not a Metaphor
A digital zine highlighting the importance of harm reduction and aspects of it in practice.
What Would an HIV Doula Do? and Visual AIDS
No one is disposable.
Weaving histories of harm reduction and detox programs with the author’s own experiences working at a syringe exchange program, this article examines how space and dignity can be created for drug users in a socialist or communist doctrine grounded in the “unconditional value” of lives.
M. E. O’Brien
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
Shira Hassan, Foreword by adrienne maree brown, Introduction by Tourmaline
“Saving Our Own Lives, an anthology of essays from long-time organizer Shira Hassan, [...tells] the stories of how sex workers, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, queer folks, trans, gender non-conforming, and two-spirit people are – and have been - building systems of change and support outside the societal frameworks of oppression and exploitation.”
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
"In a spellbinding narrative rooted in an urgent call to action, Undoing Drugs [centers on the concept of harm reduction] and tells the story of how a small group of committed people changed the world [...] Undoing Drugs offers a path forward- revolutionizing not only the treatment of addiction, but also our treatment of behavioral and societal issues.”
Maia Szalavitz