The Exchange

The Exchange is a documentary featuring specialists who save lives and maintain the Harm Reduction Program in New Mexico.

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My favorite game as a little girl was Scrabble. After I learned the basics, I would sit for hours putting together words in hopes of…

How often do you hear people openly proclaiming themselves a failure? We are facing one (potential) setback, but are not deterred from pursuing this story.

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Check out our final People of The Exchange for 2016! Phoebe Brown talks about the lifeline that harm reduction builds and how it can save more than just hard core addicts.

Friends, we've got just SEVEN DAYS left in the campaign. Help us spread the word to get to our goal!

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We're getting down to the wire folks! Donate now to help us reach our goal and make this film! http://kck.st/2ghjSP0

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…[I]n a lot of addiction rhetoric, enabling is a dirty word akin to aiding and abetting addiction — conspiring with the enemy. It’s based on the creed that a person struggling with drugs has to “hit bottom” and suffer enormous loss and intolerable pain before they’re ready for help. Never mind that research actually contradicts the “hitting bottom” model; too many addiction counselors and self-styled experts still consider it an article of faith and warn us in dire terms against enabling. Does someone in your life have a drug problem, and you don’t want to cut them off, break up with them, fire them, kick them out? You’ll be accused of enabling them by interrupting their trajectory towards hitting bottom. It’s a cruel philosophy that has caused immeasurable damage, both to people who use drugs and those who love them. Parents, partners and families seeking help and support have been taught the gospel of enabling, held responsible for their loved ones’ addictions, and blamed for their relapses. The taboo against enabling aims to strip away any and all forms of support, compassion, and aid for people who use drugs. Those who preach against the evils of enabling are deeply, almost sadistically, invested in seeing people who struggle with drugs isolated, and punished, as if they’d somehow be purified through suffering. No matter if that punishment takes the form of a fatal overdose — at least nobody enabled them.

Hitting Bottom On The Politics of Punishment: Needle Exchange and the Costs of Inaction by Daniel Raymond at Medium

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Practice revolutionary love by supporting Harm Reduction Coalition

Your gift means we can remain vigilant against state-sanctioned violence against poor people, black and brown people, and people who use drugs. It means we can continue to ensure that your voice and the voices of people most impacted by drug related harm are amplified. It means we can continue to provide practical tools for people who use drugs, and free trainings and resources to grow our movement. It means we can continue to provide life-saving naloxone.

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Learning about harm reduction is fun! http://bit.ly/2hAUNNm

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This is why harm reduction is so critical.

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Viewers will experience the Harm Reduction Program first hand while following the specialists who work to combat the spread of infectious diseases and overdose deaths.

Check out this great profile on our film from The Fix! It features an interview with our own, Layla Bozek.

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Here's our second People of The Exchange for this week from another Crazy Legs Productions​ friend, Keely Walker Muse​.

As Keely points out, every bit helps and adds into the greater sum of this story that we're hoping can change peoples' lives.

https://youtu.be/3iuYnowKQVY

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We've got a double dose of People of The Exchange this week. Our friends at Atlanta-based production company, Crazy Legs Productions have been amazingly supportive of the film. Here's owner, Tom Cappello speaking about our project. Check our page for another video tomorrow!

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Curious about the faces behind The Exchange and the community we’re documenting? Check back here for our series, People of The Exchange, which we’ll be releasing throughout our Kickstarter campaign.

The first in the series features our own director/producer, Layla Bozek.

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Addiction is an issue that is close to our hearts and has long been approached as a criminal issue. We’re hoping to change that perception by spotlighting the extremely successful harm reduction programs in New Mexico with our documentary, The Exchange.

Check out the trailer and donate to our Kickstarter if you want to see more!