This week, I’ve been thinking about Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction by Maia Szalavitz, published by Hachette Go in 2021. It’s a history of the harm reduction movement. The author is herself a former injection drug user and she’s been covering harm reduction and related issues as …
Jordan Westfall is co-founder and president of the Canadian Association for Safe Supply (CASS), an organization that aims to reduce the immense harms of the overdose crisis by pushing for an increase in people’s access to a drug supply that is legal, regulated, and safe. Scott Neigh interviews him about the crisis and about the …
Bryce Koch is a registered nurse based in Winnipeg. He is the founder of Project Safe Audience, a harm reduction initiative based in the city’s after-hours music scene, and he is on the board of directors of the Harm Reduction Nurses Association. Scott Neigh interviews him about the many ways that nurses are taking up …