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30 Nov Mayor de Blasio Announces Nation’s First Overdose Prevention Center Services to Open in New York City
Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Health Department announced that the first publicly recognized Overdose Prevention Center (OPC) services in the nation have commenced in New York City. OPCs are an extension of existing harm reduction services and will be co-located with previously established syringe...
02 Nov A Look Inside NYC’s Supervised Drug-Injection Sites, The First In The Nation
At 3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, the drop-in center at New York Harm Reduction Educators’ East Harlem site was bustling. A few people lingered at the back of the room, asking a staffer when it would be their turn to go into a closed-off area...
12 Oct Takeover: How We Occupied a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care
On July 14, 1970, members of the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx — known locally as “the Butcher Shop.” A group of activists, many of them in their late teens and early 20s, barricaded themselves inside the facility, demanding safer and...
03 Jun HIV: The Neglected Pandemic
Jonathan Van Ness takes us through 40 years of HIV/AIDS by hearing from the people who have survived the global pandemic, what it’s like living with HIV & how it’s stigmatized now....
21 Feb Dope is Death
The story of a radical movement that sought to end heroin addiction in communities of color with acupuncture, led by Dr. Mutulu Shakur, the step father of Tupac. Check out shortlist.vice.com for more. "The producers of Dope is Death would like to acknowledge an error...
05 Feb Dope is Death – Bonus Content
The story of a radical movement that sought to end heroin addiction in communities of color with acupuncture, led by Dr. Mutulu Shakur, the step father of Tupac. ...