When we apply harm reduction principles to typical life scenarios, nobody bats an eye. For instance: wearing your seat-belt while driving, wearing a helmet while riding a bike, or putting on sun screen before spending time on the beach. But when we apply this same philosophy to people who use drugs, society pushes back. Why? 

It's an age-old question: Isn't harm reduction enabling addicts more? If we give them more needles they'll just get MORE drugs! If we allow open use spaces they'll do more and never seek help. Take it all away, watch em hit rock bottom. That's the only way, right?

Wrong.

Harm reduction is a path of recovery with quite the stigma. Its advocates fight to protect active users from preventable diseases and death, but it is often met with opposition. 

Why?

Join us today as we talk with Jesse Harvey! Jesse founded the Church of Safe injection, Journey House Sober Living, and Portland Overdose Prevention Society. His views are educated and radical and his path to recovery unique.

The treatment-industrial complex, respectability politics, the failing drug war.. lets talk about it!