Landmark settlement could create new protections for harm reduction under disability law  A Christian group announced a potentially landmark legal settlement that the ACLU says could establish new federal protections for harm reduction services.

Federal settlement: needle exchanges are protected under the ADA! Programs that prevent HIV & hepatitis cannot be blocked. Big win for public health & harm reduction. 🧵💉 #NeedleExchange #HarmReduction #ADA #PublicHealth #HealthEquity

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Louise Vincent, an advocate for needle exchanges, accessible street drug testing, overdose reversal methods and other harm-reduction strategies led a movement. Full story at www.nchealthnews.org #harmreduction #needleexchange #NCSUnion #Health #NC

Louise Vincent, an advocate for needle exchanges, accessible street drug testing, overdose reversal methods and other harm-reduction strategies led a movement. #HarmReduction #NeedleExchange #DrugTesting #NC #Health
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We cannot cut funding for #STD testing services and treatment. We cannot cut funding to #NeedleExchange programs.

Five yrs after the outbreak, only 9 of Indiana’s 92 counties had exchange programs. In Maine there are 15 exchange sites as of 2022. We need more, not less.
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#ctssaveslives #scssaveslives #harmreduction #publichealthcare #needleexchange #community #welovepwud #toxicsupplycrisis #drugchecking #wraparoundsupports #safesupply

Orange County’s Needle Exchange Program is Finished After a months-long battle, the needle exchange program will not operate in Orange County after state officials pulled the plug.

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#Harmreduction #NeedleExchange

The biggest HIV "outbreak" in the last 15 years occurred in Indiana among straight, white drug addicts because Pence stopped a needle exchange as Gov. of Indiana.

How he was made the COVID czar after that is comical, and no one brings it up.

#HIVPence #needleexchange

Guelph budgets $500K for increased ambulance demand due to safe consumption site closure Asks the County of Wellington to do the same

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The province previously announced nine consumption sites in Ontario will have to stop providing services like supervised safe consumption, #safesupply and #needleexchange on-site

#Ontatrio #safeconsumptionsite #Harmreduction

MA High Court Rules in Favor of Needle Access Programs - ...

There WAS one bit of good (excellent!) news in MA today. #NeedleExchange #HarmReduction #OpioidEpidemic www.glad.org/post/massachusetts-high-...

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#HarmReduction WORKS - that's why we need REAL #NeedleExchange programs here in Massachusetts http://nyti.ms/2bNTyep