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🧵Harm reductionists took measures into their own hands to save lives & show what #overdoseprevention centers (OPCs) can offer to communities-lives saved, & health care needs addressed. The demonstration, on International #OverdoseAwarenessDay, included... bit.ly/IOADDemonstrat…

if you read one part of this new piece by Rumneek, please read karen ward's contributions individualized medical interventions will never undercut a systemically poisoned, unregulated drug supply pressprogress.ca/drug-policy-ex…

NEXT WEEK: Oct 10th 4:30-6pm EST Join us for a book talk with Liz Chiarello.com about her latest, "Policing Patients: Treatment and surveillance on the frontlines of the opioid crisis." Bring your questions! Register: bit.ly/Oct2024BookTalk

Colorado has a 60% treatment gap, meaning treatment is not available for 6 out of every 10 people who seek it. How are stiffer criminal legal penalties the answer? How is forced treatment the answer? How is denying evidenced-based interventions like OPCs the answer?

✅Voluntary ✅Effective ✅Affordable ✅Accessible ✅Appealing Conditions not met by coerced/forced treatment, or treatment in jails or prisons. The carceral system is not where we should be primarily investing treatment funds!

We need to offer people who use drugs help & support instead of criminalization & punishment. Ensuring people have stigma-free access to effective treatment, investing in communities, and giving people with lived experience a seat at the table are some ways to help get us there.

We're at the Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for SB25-044 which would make possession, sharing, etc of any amount of synthetic opioids like fentanyl a felony. codpc.org/stop-sb25-044 Listen: leg.colorado.gov/committee/audi…

Our Deputy Director Kyle Giddings, in recovery for 11 years, knows firsthand that incarceration doesn’t heal addiction—it makes it worse. Colorado must reject the failed policies of the past. Vote NO on SB-44. #NoOnSB44

Thank you to Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition & Right Response Coalition including Colorado Freedom Fund, Harm Reduction Action Center , Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH), the Colorado Providers Association, & so many others for fighting against harsh sentencing for people who use drugs. We need public health solutions, not more people in cages.