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26/11/2023

St. Paul at The Palace, overdose prevention for all.

25/11/2023

Harm reduction still saves lives. The death count rises. The best we can do is our best.

10/01/2023

Saving lives through hip hop is a dream come true.

10/01/2023

There are less live music shows in the winter. Fentanyl is still in the drug supply and we are still finding ways to distribute Narcan and fentanyl test strips! Sometimes that means doing outreach in encampments. Other times, it means going backstage. The work is the same wherever we do it.

We want everyone to live to see another day.

Pressed pills continue to flood the drug market, almost guaranteeing tragedy for the people who buy them unsuspectingly, even if that’s only the minority of people buying them. Drug checking samples confirm fentanyl in co***ne.

Know what’s out there, know what’s in your drugs, and know how to reverse overdoses. If you don’t use, you can still keep your friends safe by making sure they know, too.

21/12/2022

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15/10/2022

Punk rock, hip hop, drag shows, nightlife: how entertainment can be a vehicle for harm reduction.

does naloxone training in drag in character and it’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.

reach out to musicians, doing naloxone training and also compilation punk albums.

San Francisco gets naloxone into their bars and clubs.

We use hip hop community and other concerts to do community naloxone and fentanyl test strip distribution.

Make party, save lives.

20/09/2022

Collab event with for this weekend’s back-to-back shows at Pioneer Courthouse Square. We distributed naloxone and fentanyl test strips inside and outside the show!

29/08/2022

Last night’s sold out show at Red Rocks was the most short notice show we’ve ever coordinated. It took SO MANY PEOPLE coming together for us to pull it off. But we did it!!!

Big thanks to for staffing and generally being rad, for the intro, HRAC, and for being the best teammate I could ever ask for.

Community problems, community solutions.

28/08/2022

Friday 8/26 in Irvine. We talked with literally hundreds of people. People wanted test strips for co***ne, pills, and ketamine, a guy wanted Narcan because he uses fentanyl pills sometimes. We got to have a long discussion about why swallowing them whole is a very risky route of administration. He thought it was safest.

Neither the venue EMTs nor staff had access to Narcan, despite having requested it. For overdoses, they had to wait for police to respond. No more.