In a packed room, more than 100 attendees discussed the need for local harm reduction policies amid a rapidly worsening opioid overdose crisis.
In a packed room at the First Baptist Church of Austin last week , more than 100 attendees – including city and county elected officials, physicians and medics, and homeless outreach workers – discussed the critical need for local harm reduction policies amid a rapidly worsening, the event's nonprofit sponsor, has only been around since 2019. Since then, the U.S.
Currently, THRA operates a drop-in center, a mobile health clinic, and a street outreach team that supplies drug users with safe tools like clean syringes, sterile water, and alcohol pads. Most importantly, their survival kits include, the fastest and most effective self-administered antidote to an opioid overdose. Due to a nationwide shortage of Narcan, THRA's survival kits have gone up in price, though they are still less than $20.
The town hall took an intensely personal tone thanks to testimony from current and former drug users., an outreach worker with THRA in recovery, described the danger and stigma he faced as an IV heroin user without access to such harm reduction resources as needle exchanges:"Having to share the same dull syringe over and over again, pretty much everyone I used with had hep C.
, who said she"has her marching orders" – some said their hands might be tied by the state. "We have struggled as a team to find the resources at the scale we need," said County Commissioner, who before being elected in 2020 led the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition."I never want people to think it's that easy – that if we declared an emergency, money falls in our laps or something.
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