🧵 #HarmReduction is evidence-based. Folks' negative "feelings" about this life-saving health care do not change that. “Harm reduction and housing-first models are not ideological experiments; they are among the most rigorously studied and empirically supported... bit.ly/HHSUnderminesCare

Join us for our monthly free Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) office hours, offered in Spanish and English! #HarmReduction #TobaccoHarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #THR #SmokingCessation #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #Vaping #Tobacco #HolisticCare #HealthCareIsAHumanRight #SupportNotStigma

🧵The Lighthouse Learning Series w/ @hrc-lighthouse.bsky.social is back! Starting Friday, free monthly sessions will focus on a range of topics, including building #CommunityCare networks, thinking beyond #Nonprofit status, sex workers' rights, & more. The virtual trainings... bit.ly/nhrc_lighthouse

There's still time to register for these free peer sessions in NYC! #HarmReduction #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #HarmReductionSavesLives #SSPs #SyringeExchange #OverdosePrevention #PreventOverdose #HIV #StopHIVTogether #HIVAIDS #HepatitisC #HepC #HepCULater #EndOverdose

Know & love NHRC's @hrc-lighthouse.bsky.social & New York work? This is your chance to join our team! Learn more about our latest job opening & apply: bit.ly/NHRCCareers #HarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #NowHiring #HiringNow #LGBTQIALiberation #QueerHarmReduction #HarmReductionIsHealthCare

🧵Decades of data & lived experiences show #SyringeServicesPrograms ( #SSPs) save lives in so many ways, including through preventing #HIV & #Hepatitis C transmissions. We should be expanding & investing further in these services to ensure folks get #StigmaFreeCare that... bit.ly/INSSPsProgress

🧵The life-saving, life-affirming care provided through #OverdosePreventionCenters ( #OPCs) is undeniable. These centers make our communities safer, healthier, & cared for in ways that transcend data & numbers — & still, the stats continue to back up what harm reductionists have... bit.ly/1YearRIOPC

Coming up at the end of the month: Join us for this free learning opportunity, & share with your crew! #HarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #SupportNotStigma #OverdoseEpidemic #EndOverdose #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #WarOnDrugs #EndTheWarOnDrugs #Overdose #PreventOverdose #OverdosePrevention

🧵NHRC is excited to offer monthly #TobaccoHarmReduction ( #THR) Office Hours sessions in English & Spanish, starting this month! English sessions will be hosted the 3rd Tuesday of each month @ 3 p.m. ET starting Feb. 17, & Spanish sessions will be hosted the 4th Tuesday of each month @ 3 p.m. ET...

Mark your calendars to join us in March for the latest free webinar as part of the Supporting Choice & Autonomy series focused on #TobaccoHarmReduction! #HarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #THR #SmokingCessation #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #Vaping #Tobacco #EndTheStigma #BodilyAutonomy

🧵When funding for life-saving #HealthCare including #HarmReduction is cut or halted, lives are even more in danger. Though critical funding has since been restored following outcry about additional life-saving care being slashed, we are painfully aware these threats aren't bit.ly/FundingCutsWhiplash

Wyoming & Intermountain West friends: Join us for these free learning opportunities! More details & registration for the webinars below: #HarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #Overdose #OverdoseEpidemic #EndOverdose #PreventOverdose #EndTheStigma #SupportNotStigma

🧵 #BlackHistory is infinite. As we celebrate 100 years of honoring #BlackHistoryMonth, we know Black history happens every day, ushering Black futures in. Black harm reductionist elders led the way in our movement, & their lessons continue to be built on today. Learn more about our friends...

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🧵NHRC, w/ the Wyoming Department of Health & Wyoming Harm Reduction Collective, is launching the Wyoming Online Learning Series next month for folks in the state & Intermountain West. The free trainings focus on #OverdosePrevention & #HarmReduction in our communities. Join us for this...

🧵As we prepared to close the 2025 chapter, NHRC staff gathered to reflect on the year that was filled with hardship & solidarity while uplifting our hopes, intentions, & areas of focus as we move through the challenges in this new year. We were blessed to be joined by artist Noelia Mercedes, who...

🧵For many, street & park #Outreach groups are their last link to any kind of health services & support. We need more outreach, not less, to save lives & improve the #PublicHealth & conditions in our communities. NHRC is referenced in this @bostonglobe.com piece, bit.ly/MassAndCassHarmReductionHeals

🧵This Feb., we're diving into drug-related #Stigma & how to dismantle deadly misconceptions & discrimination through our free webinar as part of Foundational Fridays. Through this webinar, we'll examine the intersection of social inequalities, substance use, bit.ly/DismantlingDrugRelatedStigma2026

🧵Involuntary commitment is ineffective & immoral at best, & often deadly at worst. Our people & communities deserve better, from one state to another. Coverage from @filtermag.bsky.social below outlines a proposal in NJ that would make involuntary commitment mandatory bit.ly/NJInvoluntaryCommitment

Happening next week: Join us for the first free Foundational Fridays session of 2026! Details & registration below ⬇️ #HarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #SupportNotStigma #SyringeExchange #SSPs #PublicHealth #StopHIVTogether #HepC #HepCULater #Hepatitis #EndOverdose

🧵Endless "wars" do nothing to save lives from the #OverdoseEpidemic, as Susan Ousterman notes in this @filtermag.bsky.social piece after losing her son to #Overdose. She says designating #Fentanyl as a " #WeaponOfMassDestruction" ( #WMD), "does not trigger compensation for... bit.ly/NoWMDNonsense

🧵We deserve #HealthCare, not warfare. As we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this upcoming #MLKDay, we must double down on our commitments to continue sharing radical love in our communities through #HarmReduction & other health care support, creating stigma-free environments where all people..

🧵Human lives are invaluable. This is why harm reductionists, including those at OnPoint NYC, work every day & night to save lives across our communities. Beyond saving lives — what's most important in our work — #HarmReduction programs like #OverdosePrevention centers bit.ly/OPCsSaveLivesAndMoneyNYC

Our latest free #TobaccoHarmReduction ( #THR) session is coming up in March! Join us for this learning opportunity and learn more below:

🧵We must fight back against policies that cut people off from life-saving #HealthCare & related support. Bans on health care — in many forms — continue popping up across the country, & we must stick together to support each other — particularly those who are unhoused & are... bit.ly/AZSyringeBan

🧵Our Peer Foundational Training Program is back! This in-person program, hosted @ our NYC office, runs from April-June. The free weekly peer sessions, covering a range of #HarmReduction topics, are held every Wednesday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. w/ an hour lunch break. Peers are expected to attend all...

🧵Safe, #AffordableHousing & accessible health care should be a given across our communities. Instead, our houseless communities are punished & dehumanized for the overlapping epidemics of #Homelessness & #Overdose. In San Francisco, CA, the average life expectancy of... bit.ly/HomelessnessCrisisCA

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🧵We deserve access to #StigmaFree health care & resources to help us make informed decisions about our bodies. The more we know, the better we can care for ourselves & support people in our care. Healthier, safer communities are possible when we have the tools & will needed to make this a reality.

🧵Our communities do not have to live & die this way. We demand our human right to health care — including #HarmReduction — & freedom from violence are honored. Read the collective statement published by our friends @harmreductionintl.bsky.social, in which NHRC was one of many organizations...

🧵The overwhelming amount of data & folks' lived experiences continues to show #HarmReduction saves lives & improves individual & community health. As outlined in this @inforum.com op-ed, we must let this reality lead the way in how we approach & ultimately end... bit.ly/HarmReductionReducesHarmOpEd

🧵Bombs & other so-called " #WarOnDrugs" tactics will never end the #OverdoseEpidemic. Following evidence-backed #PublicHealth measures & ensuring people have basic living needs met will. As noted by our friend Kassandra Frederique of @drugpolicy.org & James Saenz in... bit.ly/NoBombsToEndOverdose

🧵Start the new year off with free learning opportunities, including our upcoming Foundational Fridays session, "Syringe Access 101!" Through this webinar, we'll explore the critical role of sterile syringe access in saving lives, promoting #PublicHealth, & reducing... bit.ly/SyringeAccess1012026

🧵As the year comes to an end, we're taking time for institutional pause & rest. Starting 1 p.m. local time tomorrow — Jan. 2, NHRC will be closed. We'll resume our normal hours Monday, Jan 5. As always, resources, including our #Naloxone Finder map, can be found 24/7... bit.ly/NaloxoneFinderMap

🧵NHRC is fighting for the communities our #Healthcare, criminal-legal, & social service systems continue to abandon. Our team, many w/ lived experience, trains providers in #StigmaFree care, builds the capacity of #SyringeServicesPrograms, supports peer leaders, bit.ly/SupportNHRCEndOfYear2025

🧵We are heartbroken over the devastating loss of so many community members who died or were killed while experiencing #Homelessness. Each of the people we've lost deserved safety, health care, a safe place to retreat to & lay their head at night, & their humanity to be honored.

Your voice matters in the #HarmReduction movement, & you deserve a job you love. Come work with us! NHRC is hiring a #Housing & #Shelter Capacity Building Coordinator (O-PHRESH). To learn more and apply, visit: bit.ly/NHRCCareers. #HarmReductionSavesLives #WorkWithUs #JobOpening #EndOverdose

Today’s the day! Join us: #HarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #SexualHealth #ReproductiveHealth #PatientCare #ReproductiveJustice #BodilyAutonomy #MyBodyMyChoice #BodyAutonomy #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #HealthCareIsAHumanRight #STIPrevention #HIVPrevention #StopHIVTogether

🧵As 2025 comes to a close, we’re looking at a landscape that represents both progress & heartbreak. Last year, the U.S. saw the largest decline in #Overdose deaths ever recorded, a promising 27% drop nationally. That happened because #HarmReduction works. Investing in... bit.ly/NHRCEOYGiving

ICYMI:

Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Everyone should feel safe at work.

(1/3) Until s*x workers are safe, none of us are safe. Tomorrow on #D17, International Day to End Violence Against S*x Workers, we honor the workers we've lost to violence and stand firm in our commitment to decriminalization.

🧵 #SexWorkIsWork, & #WorkShouldBeSafe. Together, we must build a world in which sex workers don't experience violence, harassment, exploitation, or disrespect. On International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers & beyond, we must do more than mourn those whose lives were stolen by violence...

🧵NHRC’s @hrc-lighthouse.bsky.social hosted “Centering Care: A #GenderAffirming #HarmReduction Workshop for Social Service Providers” at NHRC’s NYC office. The day-long workshop sessions, which included lectures, discussions, & interactive group activities, focused on Harm Reduction History

Happening Friday! Join us for this free training: #HarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #SexualHealth #ReproductiveHealth #PatientCare #ReproductiveJustice #BodilyAutonomy #MyBodyMyChoice #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #HealthCareIsAHumanRight #STIPrevention #HIVPrevention #StopHIVTogether

🧵As our friend @tmarieg.bsky.social of the National Black Harm Reduction Network notes in this @ipostnews.bsky.social coverage, more must be done for the communities most impacted by the #OverdoseEpidemic. #OpioidSettlement funds must be invested in... bit.ly/RacialDisparitiesOpioidSettlements

🧵 #OpioidSettlementFunds are meant to save lives from the #OverdoseEpidemic — not pay officers' salaries, tint police vehicle window, or fill unrelated budget gaps. VOCAL - Kentucky's Jennifer Twyman talked about how utilizing any opioid settlement funds in a way.. bit.ly/OpioidSettlementFundsMisuse

Happening today! Join us: #HarmReduction #TobaccoHarmReduction #HarmReductionSavesLives #THR #SmokingCessation #HarmReductionIsHealthCare #Vaping #Tobacco #HolisticCare #HealthCareIsAHumanRight #SupportNotStigma

🧵The #OverdoseEpidemic is a #PublicHealth issue, not a carceral one. The more we continue to wage a so-called " #WarOnDrugs," more accurately described as a war on people, the more people we will lose from otherwise preventable #Overdoses. We deserve more — bit.ly/BorderHarmReduction

Join us next Friday for this free learning opportunity! #BodilyAutonomy #SexualHealth #ReproHealth #ReproductiveHealth #STIPrevention #StopHIVTogether #SupportNotStigma #HealthCareIsAHumanRight