New #WhiteHouse edict targets jurisdictions that are perceived to not be removiving "Endemic #vagrancy" and "drug users" with punitive measures. Specifically mentioned are threats to cut federal funding to cities that do not stop allowing so-called “harm reduction” or “safe consumption” sites for addictive drug users.

1/3rd of all "counted' #homeless people in #USA are tabulated as being in #California, which ranks amongst highest cost of living places in the #UnitedStates. Gov #Newsom issued new policies to remove homeless #encampments and #DJT in #DC has nearly a year to the day, now made similar #ExecutiveOrder against #indigent squalor as new #NationalPolicy called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets”

https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/25/trump-executive-order-targets-supervised-consumption-harm-reduction/

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/28/trump-executive-order-on-homelessness-echoes-newsoms-a-year-before/?share=exaeteyormmawsorso8b #GiftLink #MercuryNews #MediaNewsGroup

#DrugAddicts #HarmReduction #NeedleExchange #Homelessness

orange felon is going after #harmreduction & #needleexchange

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

SA: Needle exchange program for drug users feels the effects of Trump's aid cuts http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJxzVx #NeedleExchange #HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #PublicHealth #SubstanceAbuse

This is BRILLIANT. 🤩

“The problem … around the globe … isn’t that there are not enough drugs, but not enough medics to administer them

… The new syringe … is single use & can be used for any injectable medicine [AND] he has designed a revolutionary new way of preloading them w the medication required, so that they can be more effectively mass produced.”

#Needles #HIV #MPox #GlobalHealth #Syringes #NeedleExchange #HarmReduction #Accessibility #Vaccines #HealthEquality

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/british-inventor-marc-koska-needle-saved-millions-hiv/

@SrRochardBunson
If they don’t mind (big if I know) radical mixes of anarchism and Catholicism (!?) the #Tacoma #CatholicWorker on the Hilltop is nice

I lived there for 10 years from 1991 to 2002 and we did lots of work welcoming homeless people into our house, Latin American solidarity, community gardening, supporting the local #NeedleExchange, AIDS hospice, LGBTQ, and labour and human-rights organizing

They’re friendly and not pushy (I’m a casual atheist)

https://www.tacomacatholicworker.com/
🌻

@broadwaybabyto
The #NeedleExchange in #Tacoma Washington used to hand out lapel pins made of syringes 💉 (with the sharps removed)

Which were considered illegal “drug paraphernalia” in the midst of the worst of the HIV crisis

I wore one constantly for years next to a button a local churchy group made that raised a ruckus that said “The body of Christ has AIDS”

Good trouble in hard times

I do like the idea of “FREEDOM” masks 😷

#Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen vetoes free #needleexchange program bill aimed at helping with #addiction

The bill, which passed through the legislature last week, would allow local governments, like city councils, to authorities public or behavioral health programs to provide sterile needles and a place to safely get rid of used syringes.

https://www.ketv.com/article/nebraska-jim-pillen-vetoes-free-needle-exchange-program-bill/60077899

Not sure why my 3 year old has a toy, mobile, needle-exchange van, but as an advocate for harm reduction and medication assisted treatment, I’ll allow it. Haha! #photography #addiction #needleexchange #weirdtoys

Super dope interview with Yarelix Estrada about her many years of hard work in radical frontline harm reduction, plus her thoughts on being banned from Microdose's recent Miami event. Check it out 👇👇👇 https://www.leftvoice.org/anticapitalist-psychedelic-activists-banned-an-interview/

#psychedelic #capitalism #corporadelia #drugs #drugpolicy #harmreduction #needleexchange

Here is my first and (so far) only published piece of freelance science writing: https://filtermag.org/investigation-where-are-naloxone-confiscations-happening-the-most/

#writing #sciencewriting #naloxone #overdose #needleexchange #syringeexchange #usa #drugpolicy #harmreduction #addiction #opioids #opioidaddiction

It is our labor that produces the world, let us do it with intention and care.

#crman #SolidarityNotCharity #BlocLife #SeattleProtests #needleexchange #WeLoveDrugUsers #TrashBloc #HarmReductionBloc #MedicBloc #FreeStoreBloc #foodnotbombs

#crman #SolidarityNotCharity #needleexchange #WeLoveDrugUsers #WETAKECAREOFUS #climatecatastrophe

Interview with Mary Ratcliff editor of the SF Bay View National Black Newspaper about their media activism and prisoner support, then Hillary Brown of Steady Collective #HarmReduction and #NeedleExchange under threat from the city of #AshevilleNC

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2018/08/12/asheville-threatening-harm-reduction-sfbay-view-with-mary-ratcliff/

https://chaos.social/media/g3OKAfbMlLrGtu6Jps0