March 15, 2022

National Harm Reduction Coalition creates spaces for dialogue and action that help heal the harms caused by racialized drug policies.

+ ADVOCACY: Tomorrow, End the Epidemics launches their 2022 California Budget Advocacy campaign, urging the Governor and Legislature to invest nearly $105 million to address the HIV, STI, viral hepatitis and overdose epidemics. Follow End the Epidemics on social media (Twitter, FB) and save this action toolkit so you’re ready for tomorrow’s launch!

Overdose rates are soaring. California needs a major investment in harm reduction programs. End the Epidemics.

+ CONFERENCE: Join us March 22nd, 3-4:30 PM ET, for Conference Abstract Submission Office Hours! Add the event and zoom information to your calendar by clicking here. NHRC is currently seeking abstracts for the 13th National Harm Reduction Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico October 13-16. Proposals are submitted by conference attendees, who together represent the varied aspects of harm reduction work in the US and abroad. We encourage submissions that represent all aspects of harm reduction work from grassroots organizing and programming to policy and research. The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 15, 2022 (11:59 pm PST). Learn more about the #HarmRed22 Conference.

+ REST IN POWER: We're honoring and mourning Patricia Garret. Pat played an integral role in the creation of the National Harm Reduction Coalition. We celebrate her life, mourn her loss, and will keep fighting for the rights and dignity of people who use drugs!

+ ARTICLE: Last week, the Taimon Booton Navigation Center opened in San Francisco! Run by St. James Infirmary, this center serves trans and gender non-conforming San Franciscans experiencing homelessness. Read more about the center here.

+ EVENT: Save the date for the Black AIDS Institute AT - Health Justice Collaboratives’s Black Women on HIV, COVID and Beyond: An Intergenerational Conversation, Tuesday March 24, 6:30-8 PM ET.

+ ARTICLE: “It’s a loving environment where people can use safely and stay alive.” - Sam Rivera, ED of OnPoint NYC. Hear more about NYC’s first official overdose prevention center in this AP article.

+ WEBINAR: Catch NHRC’s Hiawatha Collins on March 22nd 1-2 PM ET in Healthcare Access and Quality as a Social Determinant of Addiction

+ POP QUIZ: Can you name all of the 8 Harm Reduction Principles? Download and share these tiles on your own social media and learn more about the principles here.

1. Accepts, for better or worse, that licit and illicit drug use is part of our world and chooses to work to minimize its harmful effects rather than simply ignore or condemn them

2. Understands drug use as a complex, multi-faceted phenomenon that encompasses a continuum of behaviors from severe use to total abstinence, and acknowledges that some ways of using drugs are clearly safer than others

3. Establishes quality of individual and community life and well-being — not necessarily cessation of all drug use — as the criteria for successful interventions and policies

4. Calls for the non-judgmental, non-coercive provision of services and resources to people who use drugs and the communities in which they live in order to assist them in reducing attendant harm

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+ National Harm Reduction Coalition is hiring a Senior Director of Finance, Human Resources Manager, and Grants and Contracts Manager

+ Virginia Department of Health is hiring a Viral Hepatitis and Harm Reduction Project Administrator

+ University of San Francisco is hiring a PrEP and HIV Research Interviewer/Recruiter

+ RTI is hiring a Master’s-level Research Public Health Analyst

Hiring? Send us a note about open positions in harm reduction to [email protected] to have a job post shared here.

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