Interview with Julie Hooker
Subjects discussed include copy of The Statesmen artifact for the History Harvest; Oxford House; experience living in Oxford House; opening a new branch of Oxford House; misquotes in The Statesmen newspaper article about Julie and Oxford House; media portrayal of addiction; lack of support for substance abuse in Oregon; stigma; punitive treatment; harm reduction philosophies of love and respect; punitive treatment in Minnesota; creating her own organization using harm reduction philosophy; standards for women struggling with addiction; prostitution; methods of survival; finding a harm reduction community; growing marijuana; returning to school for a master’s degree; Resurrection Recovery and use of harm reduction techniques
Hooker, Julie
May 6, 2017
Hooker, Julie
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Oral History Interview
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
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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
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Oral History Interview