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Reducción de daños en español en las calles de NYC / Salud pública y justicia social / Harm reduction must be 24/7. Health on the streets! 917-200-0358. [email protected] bronxmovil.org

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Bronx Móvil @bronxmovil.bsky.social · Feb 2

"Dispatches from Rebellious Colonial Subjects"
Harm reduction activism to humanize and support people who inject drugs in Puerto Rico and the New York City Puerto Rican diaspora charts a long and unfinished history.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#drugsky
#harmreduction
#PuertoRico

First page of article titled "Dispatches from Rebellious Colonial Subjects" describing harm reduction work in Puerto Rico and the Bronx, NYC during COVID-19.

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Alicia Ault @aliciaault.bsky.social · 16d

“She was flat-out brilliant,” Professor Dasgupta said in an interview. “She identified problems in the system and could frame injustices in truly amazing ways.”

@nabarund.bsky.social

#Psychsky #harmreduction

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16d

Louise Vincent, a heroin addict who overcame multiple overdoses, the amputation of her leg and her daughter’s death from opioids to help lead a movement promoting expanded access to needle exchanges, naloxone and other methods of reducing harm to drug users, died last month at 49.

Louise Vincent, Addict Who Led Harm Reduction Movement, Dies at 49

She was instrumental in helping promote wider use of needle exchanges, naloxone and tests to assist drug users in identifying dangerous ingredients.

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National Harm Reduction Coalition @harmreduction.org · 16d

🧵 #Prohibition has never kept people safe, and has caused more deaths from toxic supply. This has been true throughout history.

"The government already regulates and allows the sale of one of the most deadly substances in the world: alcohol. Nyx points out that...

bit.ly/SafeSupplySavesLives

‘Who wouldn’t want pure cocaine?’: the radical plan to prevent overdoses with better drugs

Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front believes we shouldn’t blame users for the ills of capitalism: if so many people are self-medicating, why not give them the clean stuff?

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National Harm Reduction Coalition @harmreduction.org · 22d

🧵We know what happens when #SyringeServicesPrograms (SSPs) aren’t available or shut down. Among other dangers, #HIV rates tick upward. We know what we need to keep us safe — we need #HarmReduction, #Housing, & our other basic human rights to be respected.
bit.ly/HIVOutbreaksAndHarmReductionRollbacks

Bangor HIV outbreak shows the risk of Trump’s crackdown on homelessness and drug use • Maine Morning Star

An HIV outbreak in Bangor, Maine illustrates the risk of Trump’s crackdown on homelessness and drug use.

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Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicy.org · 22d

We are heartbroken by the passing of Louise Beale Vincent, Executive Director of the National & NC Survivors Unions. A fierce leader in harm reduction, she worked with compassion and courage to save lives and inspire countless others. She will be deeply missed.

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Drug Policy Facts @drugpolicyfacts.bsky.social · 22d

"Nitazenes are probably too dangerous to legalise. But the best way to reduce harm to drug users and revenues for criminal gangs is to allow addicts regulated access to better-understood opioids, including heroin."
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Nitazenes: another failure of drug prohibition

As countries crack down on fentanyl, a new synthetic opioid takes off

www.economist.com

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The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR) @cduhr.bsky.social · 21d

An HIV outbreak in Bangor, Maine is being linked to several factors, including the closure of sterile syringe programs, a shortage of HIV medical providers, and the clearing of a large homeless encampment.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

An HIV Outbreak in Maine Shows the Risk of Trump’s Crackdown on Homelessness and Drug Use - KFF Health News

Public health experts and advocates say the outbreak has been fueled by a confluence of local factors, including the sweeping of a homeless encampment and shuttering of a sterile-syringe program. But ...

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Bronx Móvil @bronxmovil.bsky.social · 26d

Join us!

Visual AIDS presents:
Harm Reduction Today- Needle Exchange, Abolition, and Sex Parties, Oh MY!!

MoMA PS1
Saturday, September 27, 2025, 4:00pm–5:30pm

#harmreduction
#drugsky
@vocal-ny.bsky.social
@jawanza.bsky.social
@flordepascua.bsky.social
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Visual AIDS |

Upcoming Event
Harm Reduction Today: Needle Exchange, Abolition, and Sex Parties, Oh MY!!

MoMA PS1
Date:
Saturday, September 27, 2025 from 4:00pm–5:30pm
https://share.google/bgHD3QtcgzUWf9v20

In tandem with Love Rules: The Harm Reduction Archives of Heather Edney and Richard Berkowitz, our current exhibition at MoMA PS1, Visual AIDS presents a conversation exploring the landscape of harm reduction today — from Mpox, PrEP, and sex parties to Narcan, fentanyl, and the enduring value of community-based outreach efforts.

Tickets are not required to attend. MoMA PS1 is free for all New Yorkers.

Following the tradition of safe sex and safer drug use practices championed by harm reduction activists such as Heathey Edney and Richard Berkowitz, this program will bring together three individuals applying harm reduction strategies in their work. Harm reductionist Tamara Oyola-Santiago, co-founder of Bronx Móvil, will recount her work as a public health educator implementing syringe exchange programs. Organizer Jawanza James Williams, of VOCAL-NY, will discuss harm reduction as it intersects with housing justice and abolition. Filmmaker/curator Adam Baran, co-producer of HOW TO HAVE SEX IN A PANDEMIC and an organizer of monthly sex parties in Brooklyn, will share practices to support collective sexual health care. This panel will celebrate the final weeks of Love Rules by reflecting on what has and hasn't changed since the early days of safe sex and safe injection practices.

Following the discussion, visitors are welcome to explore the exhibition and converse with the panelists.

Love Rules: The Harm Reduction Archives of Heather Edney and Richard Berkowitz is on view at MoMA PS1 from April 24 to October 6.

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Metzineres @metzineres.bsky.social · Aug 28

Counting overdose deaths is an act of social justice. Numbers are not neutral: they criminalize or erase. We urgently need care policies and harm reduction that respect autonomy and dignity.

#IOAD2025 #OverdoseAwarenessDay #EndOverdose #HarmReduction #StopTheStigma

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Bronx Móvil @bronxmovil.bsky.social · Aug 27

Nuestra campaña Narcanazo es creada y liderada por la comunidad. Nos movilizamos porque salvar vidas en la crisis de opioides requiere diálogo, acceso a la naloxona y promoción de la salud.

Un Solo Pueblo
Un Solo Propósito
Salvar Vidas con Narcanazo

#drugsky
#harmreduction

Image in color. Three hands raised, centering intranasal naloxone.

Our Narcanazo campaign is community created and led. We mobilize across New York City because saving lives in the opioid crisis requires dialogue, naloxone access and health promotion. Narcanazo is about people who care and will act as empowered upstanders.

Text reads in Spanish:
One People
One Purpose
Saving Lives with Narcanazo

¡Pálante!

Art by Uma Santiago

Black and White image of other image in this post.

Three hands raíces centering intranasal naloxons.

#naloxonesaveslives
#narcanazo
#lanaloxonasalvavidas
#elpueblounidojamásserávencido
#lasaludenlascalles
#healthonthestreets
#harmreductionsaveslives
#lareduccióndedañossalvavidas
#bronxmóvil
#endthestigma
#finalestigma
#endthedrugwar
#finalaguerracontralasdrogas

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 27

More than 800,000 Americans have died from opioids since 1999. But there’s another drug-related crisis in the US: the exploitative, underregulated drug rehab industry.

On this week's episode of @revealnews.org's "More To The Story."

Listen to the full episode here: tinyurl.com/yc5ude3w

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National Harm Reduction Coalition @harmreduction.org · Aug 27

🧵 #ClimateChange has direct impacts on all people, including people who use drugs. Heat waves & other extreme weather events exacerbate overdoses & other #PublicHealth issues, especially for unhoused folks. People who use drugs face layers of barriers to life-saving care & shelter.
bit.ly/HeatAndODs

July is the worst month for drug overdose deaths. Is heat to blame?

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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The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR) @cduhr.bsky.social · Aug 27

Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigators Yesenia Aponte-Meléndez, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, & Alex Bennett - Overdoses with Xylazine and Fentanyl Recorded in Pennsylvania’s Overdose Information Network...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Image of first page from journal article mentioned and linked in post, Overdoses with Xylazine and Fentanyl Recorded in Pennsylvania’s Overdose Information Network: An Analysis of Law Enforcement/First Responder-Reported Overdose Response.

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Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicy.org · Aug 19

The Drug war was built for control, not care. Now history is repeating itself. 🧵

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Harm Reduction International @harmreductionintl.bsky.social · Aug 19

Your voices have value! If you are someone who uses c0c4in3, our partners from @echelecabeza and @institutoriamx would like to hear from you as part of the research to develop a public policy proposal for c0c41n3 regulation.

Fill the survey: https://forms.gle/JTW89nTqQZQYmYrW6

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Bronx Móvil @bronxmovil.bsky.social · Jul 31

Harm reduction saves lives. Naloxone saves lives. Syringe exchange saves lives. Overdose prevention centers save lives. People who use drugs are lifesavers; they are first responders. Testing strips save lives. Knowledge is power.

Naloxone kit hanging from train line in Kensington, Philadelphia. 2022

Empaque de naloxona guindando de poste del tren en Kensington, Philadelphia. 2022.

Below is translation of main post: La reducción de daños salva vidas. La naloxona salva vidas. El intercambio de jeringuillas salva vidas. Los centros de prevención de sobredosis salvan vidas. Las personas que consumen drogas salvan vidas, son personal de primera respuesta. Las tiras reactivas salvan vidas. El conocimiento es poder.

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Bronx Móvil @bronxmovil.bsky.social · Jul 30

Lean esta historia de Iniciativa Comunitaria y su proyecto de cuarto de inyección más segura.

La reducción de daños en Puerto Rico nace formalmente con @iniciativapr (Instagram).

¡Gracias por ser ejemplo de liderazgo y modelo a seguir!

#HarmReduction
#DrugSky
#PuertoRico
#overdoseprevention

Photograph from Instagram post by Iniciativa Comunitaria with text that reads:
Puerto Rico's harm reduction starts with Iniciativa Comunitaria and Dr. Chaco Vargas Vidot.

Harm reduction by and for PWID is historic and unrecorded. From work in hospitalillos and encampments, Puerto Rican harm reduction is Everywhere.

In 2002 Iniciativa opened an overdose prevention center.

All over the world there have been MANY safer consumption facilities led by and organized by PWID.

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National Harm Reduction Coalition @harmreduction.org · Jul 25

Housing is a human right. No law, policy, order, or campaign will ever change that.

Take action against the criminalization of our unhoused communities. Read the statement and get involved with our friends at ‪@homeless-law.bsky.social‬: bit.ly/NHLCActionAlert

#HousingNow #StopTheSweeps

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National Homelessness Law Center @homelesslaw.bsky.social · Jul 24

BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs

Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4

Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes - National Homelessness Law Center

Trump’s new Executive Orders direct states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes (WASHINGTON, D.C - March 28th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. Across America, sky-high rents are…

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Jul 24

Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

www.whitehouse.gov

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Bronx Móvil @bronxmovil.bsky.social · Jul 5

Bronx Móvil works July 4 and most holidays. Harm reduction must be 24/7 & year round.

Bronx Móvil está en las calles este fin de semana repartiendo el amor radical de reducción de daños.

#HarmReduction
#Drugsky
#boricuassalvandovidas
#community
#OverdosePrevention
#naloxonesaveslives
#LatinMedSky

Foto de palma de una mano con pegadizo (sticker) que dice "Narcanazo, Naloxone saves lives. Get trained. La naloxona salvavidas. Adiestrate."

Sobre la foto el texto lee: "Bronx Móvil es un 23 de septiembre, no un 4 de julio. Estamos en las calles repartiendo el amor radical de reducción de daños."

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Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network @correlationnet.bsky.social · Jul 1

New comic from XADUD (@Metzineres) & EuroNPUD via BOOST: “Hep C without a mess” shares real, peer-led info on hepatitis C. English and Spanish versions available now on our website!

Read the cartoon: 🔗 buff.ly/ArWNFVk

#HarmReduction #BOOSTProject

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The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR) @cduhr.bsky.social · Jun 30

Health & Economic Costs of Homelessness
"ample evidence that encampment sweeps increase social & health harms without achieving any of their stated policy aims—reductions in homelessness, encampments, or mortality among marginalized populations of unhoused people."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Health and Economic Costs of Homelessness

At the intersection of housing policy, drug policy, and public safety lies the seemingly intractable political challenge of providing life-affirming interventions for unhoused people who use opioids. ...

jamanetwork.com

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Bronx Móvil @bronxmovil.bsky.social · Jun 25

Harm reduction works! Community led, culturally and linguistically centered, and mobile. Truly "meeting people where they're at"!

The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR) @cduhr.bsky.social · Jun 24

Overdose deaths of Black Bostonians dropped significantly in 2024. Here’s why
www.masslive.com/news/2025/06...

Overdose deaths of Black Bostonians dropped significantly in 2024. Here’s why

Drug overdose deaths among Black Bostonians fell by nearly 60% last year. It's an achievement to be recognized, but much work remains, community health workers say.

www.masslive.com

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Drug Policy Facts @drugpolicyfacts.bsky.social · Jun 19

"Crucial SAMHSA research is also in peril, former employees warned. This month, the agency stopped updating the Drug Abuse Warning Network, a nationwide surveillance system of drug use trends and insights drawn from emergency department visits."
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

SAMHSA has fought drug and mental health crises. Now it’s in crisis.

Staff and budget cuts will result in fewer services for people fighting mental illness and addiction, including Narcan distribution.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · Jun 16

Providing homeless people with housing:

- reduces crime
- increases employment
- improves health
- does not increase reliance on social benefits.

80% of the costs are offset by the benefits in the first 18 months. Evidence from the US

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