Interview with Sue Purchase and Rae Eden Frank
Topics discussed include departing from twelve-step treatment model; individual treatment approach; offering services; treating people with dignity and respect; injection drug use in the Twin Cities in 1990s; the problem changing after white people become affected; destigmatization of drug users; harm reduction as a new concept and methodology in the United States in the 1990s; drug use education for drug users; grass-roots harm reduction; empowering drug users; Minnesota AIDS Project; narcan distribution; Harm Reduction Summit organized by White Earth Harm Reduction Coalition; Patt Denning’s Over the Influence; Women With a Point; needle exchange; Steve’s Law, and equipping first responders with naloxone; prevalence of fentanyl and carfentanil and its link to overdose; assumptions of drug user identities and characteristics; drug-chic, making drug addiction fashionable in consumer culture; home delivery needle exchange; competitive funding atmosphere in Minnesota.
Purchase, Sue and Rae Eden Frank
May 6, 2017
Purchase, Sue and Rae Eden Frank
Audio, Transcript
English
Oral History Interview
Clean Needles Save Lives matchbooks
Drug Use Education, Harm Reduction Outreach
One pink and one white set of matches with Women With a Point contact information, safe use information, and syringe exchange information printed on the back. Graphic of a needle on the front. Titled "Clean Needles Save Lives" and "Never Share Syringes."
Women With a Point
n.d.
Purchase, Sue
Physical Object
English
Physical Object
Valhalla Place Treatment Center items
Overdose Prevention, Harm Reduction Organizations
Gray Valhalla Place T-Shirt, High Intensity Outpatient Treatment program brochure, Addiction and Mental Health Services brochure, Narcan kit including two doses of Narcan, two syringes, and UV protected carrying bag.
Valhalla Place
n.d.
Devich, Stephanie
Print Media, Clothing
English
Physical Object
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
Fit Packs
Drug Use Education, Harm Reduction Outreach
Two Fit Packs for the safe disposal of needles with the materials packaged inside of them: condoms, syringes, cookers, and cotton.
1997
Thomas, Gayle
Physical Object
Physical Object
Harm reduction brochures
Harm Reduction Outreach, Drug Use Education
Seven brochures about injection drug use, Hepatitis, and overdose.
n.d.
Thomas, Gayle
Print Media
English
Text
Hepatitis C education postcard
HIV/AIDS Education
Postcard with Hepatitis C testing and educational information.
National Hepatitis C Advocacy Council
n.d.
Frank, Rae Eden
Print Media
English
Text
Drug Injectors Sharing Cookers and Cotton Increase Their Risk of Hepatitis C
Drug Use Education
Article about Hepatitis C in drug injectors written for NIDA Notes by Josephine Thomas.
Thomas, Josephine
Article on page 9 of NIDA Notes
NIDA Notes
2001
Frank, Rae Eden
Print Media
English
Text
This Damn Dirty Needle handout
HIV/AIDS Education
Educational handout in both Spanish and English about how needles can spread AIDS, Hepatitis, and other diseases.
Positive Health Project
n.d.
Frank, Rae Eden
Print Media
English and Spanish
Text
Logo Design for Access Works!
Harm Reduction Outreach
Logo design for Access Works! showing a syringe and the words "The Point is Safety."
Access Works!
n.d.
Frank, Rae Eden
Print Media
English
Still Image