Interview with Sue Purchase and Rae Eden Frank

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

68 minutes

Sullivan, Amy

Purchase, Sue and Frank, Rae Eden

Minneapolis, Minnesota