Southern states are embracing harm reduction techniques, including naloxone and needle exchanges, more than ever before. But in the Bible Belt, many Southerners who held conservative views often criticized harm reduction as something that encouraged — not ended — the use of drugs. “Over time, harm reduction became seen as something that’s common sense,” said Michael-Devereux Louis Bertin, executive director of the South Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition. Success in FloridaSince World AIDS Day 2016, Florida drug users have gathered in a parking lot near Miami’s Overtown neighborhood. The officer Varnell had seen on that harm reduction panel, Fayetteville Police Department Capt.

Source: Huffington Post April 16, 2019 16:06 UTC