Description
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.