A Deadly Decision Against Needle Exchanges
Advocacy Education
Newspaper article about needle exchange.
Marksten, Gary
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
n.d.
Purchase, Sue
Print Media
English
Text
Access Works! Mission Statement
Harm Reduction Philosophies
Access Works! harm reduction mission statement.
Access Works!
n.d.
Purchase, Sue
Print Media
English
Text
Children with AIDS cartoon
Harm Reduction Philosophies
A framed cartoon with two babies that have contracted AIDS from their parents. One of the children says, "Tell me again why they didn't want the government to fund a clean needle exchange program?" and the other child responds, "It would send the wrong message to us kids."
Star Tribune
n.d.
Frank, Rae Eden
Print Media
English
Still Image
Don't Get Stuck With AIDS
HIV/AIDS Education
Informational brochure about AIDS with resources and preventative measures.
Minneapolis Health Department
1988
Frank, Rae Eden
Print Media
English
Text
Getting the Point at Access Works
Harm Reduction Organizations, Advocacy Education
A magazine article written about Access Works and the work they do in with drug users.
O'Donnell, Brendan
Lavender Magazine
2005
Frank, Rae Eden
Print Media
English
Text
Interview with Annie Artino and Susan Phillips
Topics discussed include Street Works outreach program; serving homeless youth; working through the AIDS and Hepatitis C crisis; harm reduction tools; empowering individuals to treat themselves; meeting people where they are at; harm reduction training for youth workers across the state; Harm Reduction Coalition Conference; Harm Times Cafe community; using harm reduction techniques themselves; decline in harm reduction practice since the 1990s in Minnesota; learning to parent with harm reduction techniques; facing stigma as a harm reduction practitioner; people getting scared and tightening up during conservative government administration; prevalence of twelve-step mindset in Minnesota; sex work.
Phillips, Susan and Annie Artino
May 6, 2017
Phillips, Susan and Annie Artino
Audio, Transcript
English
Oral History Interview
Interview with Bethany Zeiler
Topics discussed include Women With a Point; needle exchange in pharmacies; syringe exchange; drug use; Methadone clinics; HIV education programs; harm reduction philosophies; harm reduction conferences; closing of Women With a Point and Access Works.
Zeiler, Bethany
May 6, 2017
Zeiler, Bethany
Audio, Transcript
English
Oral History Interview
Interview with Jules Friedmann
Interview discussion topics include the Aliveness Project, a drop-in center open in south Minneapolis in the 80s; helped file a 501(c)(3) for Women With a Point with Sue Purchase; Women With a Point’s focus on needle distribution; getting funding for Women With a Point through the CDC; distributing information along with clean needles; doing administrative work for Women with a Point; getting accepted into the gay community through bartending; working with friends to finance and administer several other projects; witnessing the effects of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Friedmann, Jules
May 6, 2017
Friedmann, Jules
Audio, Transcript
English
Oral History Interview
Interview with Lee Hertel
Topics discussed include HIV positive diagnosis; drug use; involvement with Minnesota AIDS Project needle exchange program; service on Minnesota HIV Services Planning Council; meeting Sue Purchase; Morpheus Project; creation of Lee’s Rig Hub; love and respect as harm reduction philosophies; naloxone and overdose response; effect of Lee’s Rig Hub on overdose death rate; Good Samaritan Laws; benefits of pharmaceutical morphine; recognition for those who are saving lives with naloxone.
Hertel, Lee
May 6, 2017
Hertel, Lee
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English
Oral History Interview
Interview with Mikkel Beckmen
Harm Reduction Outreach
Subjects discussed during the interview include early 1990s harm reduction in Minneapolis; Catholic Charities’ St. Anthony Residence and Glenwood Residence; harm reduction in Minneapolis’s Native community; the Anishinabe Wakiagun, or People’s Lodge; Corporation for Supportive Housing; Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt [WHISPER]; harm reduction as a tool for oppressed groups; the connection between housing and recovery for drug users; world wide scope of harm reduction for drug users.
Beckmen, Mikkel
May 6, 2017
Beckmen, Mikkel
Audio, Transcript
English
Oral History Interview