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Keep Bmore's SCS Movement Alive!

BRIDGES is an advocacy coalition working to end overdose and criminalization by promoting safe spaces, dignity, health, and justice for people who use drugs. Funding for BRIDGES is running out! That means the funding for advocacy for safer drug consumption sites in Baltimore will be ...

Baltimore's BRIDGES is a harm reduction advocacy coalition working to end overdose, criminalization & give a voice to PEOPLE who use drugs--but BRIDGES' funding is running out! 

That means their advocacy for safe consumption spaces in Baltimore will be halted. If you can help in anyway, please donate in the link above. Can't make a donation? Then please share this post.

For more on BRIDGES incredible work see our Amplifying Hope with their community organizer, Rajani, an unsung harm reduction champion: http://harmreduction.org/blog/amplifying-hope/

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De Blasio Moves to Bring Safe Injection Sites to New York City

Though no injection sites exist yet in the United States, the endorsement of the strategy by New York may give the movement behind it special impetus.

Harm Reduction Coalition today commended Mayor Bill de Blasio for recognizing Overdose Prevention Centers as an important strategy to reduce overdose deaths and improve the health and safety of New Yorkers. Harm Reduction Coalition stands ready to assist in the establishment of effective Overdose Prevention Centers in neighborhoods and communities. 

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Large turnout at New York City Hall calling on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio  to release the Safer Consumption Site report. 236 people have died of overdose in NYC in 59 days since Mayor said “soon”. Time to #EndOverdoseNY & say #YestoSCS!

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SF safe injection sites expected to be first in nation, open around July 1

San Francisco is on track to open its first two safe injection sites this July, a milestone that will likely make the city the first in the country to embrace the controversial model of allowing drug users to shoot up under supervision. Other cities - including Seattle, Baltimore and Philadelphia - are talking about opening their own safe injection facilities, but San Francisco could get there first. Facilities already exist in Canada, Australia and Europe. Barbara Garcia, director of San Francisco's Department of Public Health, said Monday that she's tending to the details, including where the facilities will be located.

Harm Reduction Coalition's West Coast office has been supporting the #yestoSCS movement in CA & applaud the city's bold leadership supporting evidence-based harm reduction interventions that will save lives. #SCS #SIFs #opioidcrisis

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Advocates Applaud NYPD Openness on “Safer Consumption Spaces” But Question City Hall's Inaction

The NY Police Commissioner is 'considering' safer consumption spaces in response to the opioid crisis. Harm Reduction Coaliton calls on NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to immediately release completed SCS feasibility study & implement the reports recommendations