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VICTORY! California Governor Newsom just signed the state budget, officially allocating $15.2 million to fund staff positions in syringe service programs across the state!
Over the last two years Harm Reduction Coalition talked with programs & PEOPLE who use drugs to understand what was needed to truly reduce the health & social harms of drug use, & we kept hearing one thing: more people to do the work! People across the state came together to advocate for this budget ask, led by Drug Policy Alliance & Harm Reduction Coalition. It was a collaborative effort from the beginning to today’s victory!
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On June 26th Harm Reduction Coalition will be participating in the annual Support. Don’t Punish. Global Day of Action. #SupportDontPunish events are taking place in more than 244 cities, in 89 countries tomorrow.
To find an event in your city or express your support virtually see: http://supportdontpunish.org
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The latest Narcotica podcast sits down down with Harm Reduction Coalition’s, Eliza Wheeler. Eliza has been working in harm reduction, distributing syringes & naloxone directly to people who use drugs for over two decades, & reflects on how easily the bedrock values and principles of the movement can be compromised and co-opted by political forces when it goes mainstream. Eliza talks about how funds for naloxone end up in the wrong hands, how syringe access deals with NIMBYism, & how the heart of her harm reduction philosophy is bodily autonomy.
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Save the Date: 13th National Harm Reduction Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 17-20, 2020
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[SIGN ON] Join Harm Reduction International’s call to action for an $18 billion replenishment of the Global Fund this year to ensure that people who use drugs are not left behind in the global HIV response.
Sign on here: https://www.hri.global/hr19-call-to-action-harm-reduction-funding
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San Francisco and Bay Area: join Harm Reduction Coalition, friends and allies to voice your support for Overdose Prevention Services. This THURSDAY (4/11).
More details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/165028547734568/
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#Repost @rarediseasepatient
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Some of us need #narcotic #painmanagement just to live in our own bodies, because our #pain is so severe. This makes the one-sided #media hype about the #opioidcrisis dangerous and damaging to us, because it makes this prescription #medication more difficult to obtain from scared doctors and hospitals, even from pain-management specialists. Finding a pain-management #doctor who is comfortable managing a #patient with narcotic medication, even when no other treatment has been effective, is increasingly difficult, and may sometimes be impossible. #ChronicPain patients who can’t find help for pain are at risk for #suicide.
If you are in pain, you have the right to medical intervention. If you are a member of the media, you have a responsibility to report with balance and accuracy. If you are a doctor, you have a duty to treat patients with the appropriate medication for each patient’s needs, not your own, even if that means managing a narcotic.
www.practicalpainmanagement.com/pain/other/ehlers-danlos-syndrome-emerging-challenge-pain-management
#EDS #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #Awareness #RareDisease #RareDiseases #ChronicIllness #ChronicallyIll #Genetics #GeneticDisorder
Please help: www.gofundme.com/HOPE-for-a-RareDisease-Patient
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