How Not to Die
Back in March of last year, my friend, Kim Powers who is a harm reduction goddess and works in syringe access told me she had lost 17 people to overdose in three months. I don’t know how many more it’s been since then. It’s relentless, the grief that comes, the trauma that never gets a chance to heal. Her question was direct but one with no perfect answer, “What do I do?”
Read MoreWhy Harm Reduction? I can’t lose another child.
While recently attending a Harm Reduction Works-HRW meeting I was asked how I came to the practice of harm reduction. I have worked the 12 steps from all angles,
Read MoreSometime in the near future, I will forget writing these very words, in this very room, with this very pen. So there’s a story I’m writing right now that I am destined to forget. Which isn’t quite true. I will most likely remember this story if only because I’ve just made such a big deal of forgetting it. It’s one of the weird ways things work. But even though I will remember the story I won’t remember all of the words.
Read MoreI’ve found over the years there is a difference in relationship when I am practicing harm reduction with others versus when I must practice harm reduction on others. It is not that the two types are mutually exclusive nor it is about establishing a binary. It is simply distinguishing how different types of energy feel both in my body and as I express them.
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