Extreme temperatures and natural disasters push harm reduction workers to find new ways to keep communities safe.
From the foothills of the California Sierras, to the floodplains of New Mexico, to the high Rockies in Colorado, these events are also forcing harm reduction workers to adapt their approaches to match their specific surroundings.
In 2020, overdose-related emergency room visits in New Mexico peaked in July at 255, and in 2021, they peaked in June at 260As someone who uses drugs and has experienced homelessness in the past, Charzuk has “met some of the same challenges that participants meet on a daily basis,” she said. “He had some indications that this was going to be a very big one,” said Campbell; in fact, the fire would go on to burn over 200,000 acres and more than 1,000 buildings.
“A lot of people of color, a lot of queer and trans folks, a lot of poor folks already understand the ways the system fails them.”
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