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10 Feb How the Young Lords Brought the Revolution to Drug Treatment
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...
10 Feb Supervised Consumption Sites: Benefits and Addressing Misconceptions
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)....
09 Feb We Are Beautiful With Sam Rivera
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...