Our Executive Director, Sam Rivera, made this year’s 2023 #Time100, an annual list from TIME recognizing the impact and achievements of the 100 most influential people in the world. ...
In front of a wall filled with agitprop posters of Malcolm X, Mao Zedong, and Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebrón, doctors stuck tiny needles into the ears of a woman going through heroin withdrawal. It was 1971 and they were demonstrating a new acupuncture treatment...
GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice and the Safer Inside Coalition presented “Supervised Consumption Sites: Addressing Benefits and Misconceptions,” a free virtual event to engage the community in a conversation about supervised consumption sites/services (SCS)....
Executive Director of New York Harm Reduction Educators and Inside Circle Facilitator-in-Training, Sam Rivera has transformed the challenges of his youth into an incredible wealth of compassion and knowledge to help others find wellness through his work in harm reduction, education, and services for people...