What Harm Reduction Really Looks Like
Harm reduction advocates are implementing solidarity-based strategies for curbing drug overdoses in Minneapolis.
“After a camp has been evicted, that’s the most dangerous part. People are scattered; they lost their stuff; they lost their community; they lost their Narcan. A lot of people use and overdose in the hours after a sweep.”
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Memories of Silk Road, the Drug Marketplace We Used for Safer Supply
In a somewhat unexpected move by President Donald Trump, on January 21 he issued a full pardon to Silk Road ...
"I never got sick off any drug I got off that website," one former customer told Filter. "And I believe that it did keep me safe because then I wasn’t roaming the streets to find drugs!”
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We lost a genuine artist today.
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