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Harm Reduction Heroes
HRH is a peer-mentorship program based in anti-racism and trauma-aware intentional living designed to address harms from substance use and risky behaviors.
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Trying to lean into the learnings of this study and practice the suggestions in the last column of this table in the context of HRH groups.
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[Chorus]
I can’t smell the flowers
Felt empty now for hours
Lost my powers
I can’t smell the flowers
I’m sick of all these towers
Think I done too many downers
[Verse 1]
Hard to see the value in these half-hearted encounters
Can’t deal with the truth so we just change the world around us
To feel and smell just like we want it to
Fuck what we're meant to do
Can’t hang 'round, be no fool
Wasting time just getting high
[Pre-Chorus]
Getting high
To get by
Clear my mind
Yeah, blue skies
All this time I’ve been flying
From up here
[Chorus]
I can’t smell the flowers
Felt empty now for hours
Lost my powers
I can’t smell the flowers and
I’m sick of all these towers
Done too many downers
[Verse 2]
Stuck inside a space I have created for
Myself to be round no one else
I’m working on my spells
To get me out of here
Oh yeah, your words are wisdom
Oh yeah, you keep on giving
But nah, there’s no forgiving
And yeah, I’m over thinking
Some days I am just sinking
Static, nah, I ain’t driven
Talking but I ain’t listening
[Chorus]
I can’t smell the flowers
Felt empty now for hours
Lost my powers
I can’t smell the flowers and
I’m sick of all these towers
Done too many downers
[Verse 3]
I can’t smell the flowers
Been hanging out for hours
Where’s my powers
And I’m sick of all these towers towering over me
Feeling fucking lonely
Like no one even knows me
Not even my own homies
[Pre-Chorus]
Getting high (Getting high)
To get by (To get by)
Clear my mind (Clear my mind)
Yeah, blue skies (Yeah, blue skies)
All this time I’ve been flying (I've been flying)
From up here (From up here)
[Chorus]
I can’t smell the flowers
Felt empty now for hours
Lost my powers
I can’t smell the flowers
I’m sick of all these towers
Too many downers
I can’t smell the flowers
Felt empty now for hours
Lost my powers
I can’t smell the flowers
I’m sick of all these towers
Too many downers
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“As an epidemiologist, I study substance use and mental health trajectories across the life course. We know that many problems in the area of substance use and mental health begin early in life and that children who come from less advantaged backgrounds are at higher risk. Those problems also influence their education and socio-economic situation in the longer term, often fueling a vicious circle.”
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Huey P. Newton
“I always carried lawbooks in my car. Sometimes, when a policeman was harassing a citizen, I would stand off a little and read the relevant portions of the penal code in a loud voice to all within hearing distance.
In doing this, we were helping to educate those who gathered to observe these incidents. If the policeman arrested the citizen and took him to the station, we would follow and immediately post bail.
Many community people could not believe at first that we had only their interest at heart. Nobody had ever given them any support or assistance when the police harassed them, but here we were, proud Black men, armed with guns and a knowledge of the law.
Many citizens came right out of jail and into the Party, and the statistics of murder and brutality by policemen in our communities fell sharply.”
― “Revolutionary Suicide” by Huey Newton.”
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"to overcome the internalized, interpersonal, and institutional racism, the impact of racism on health and on mental health must be an integral part of educational curricula, from undergraduate levels through continuing professional development, clinical work, and research"
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“In 1967, Pittsburgh's inner city produced America’s first EMT service. Comprised solely of Black men and women recruited from the city’s Hill District neighborhood, the paramedics of Freedom House Ambulance became trailblazers in providing pre-hospital and CPR care. Freedom House was initially conceived to respond to the needs of Pittsburgh’s African American community who often times, couldn’t rely on police and fire departments during an emergency. Their ground breaking work became the basis for all paramedics training in the country. However, despite its success - racism and power dynamics in Pittsburgh shut down Freedom House in 1975, leaving its legacy almost lost to history. For more information visit https://www.wqed.org/freedomhouse.”
“By 1972, Freedom House employed 35 crew members, received 7,000 calls a year, and its leaders had established the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians to formalize the field. The crew pioneered several medical developments and technologies, including the introduction of medical physicians to ambulance work, allowing medics to transmit EKGs, using air casts to stabilize injured bones and joints, and even administering Narcan to overdose patients.”
“Unfortunately, the ambulance service was viewed with concern by City Hall. White neighborhoods grew indignant that Hill District residents were receiving better care than them. Rather than allow Freedom House to expand service to other neighborhoods, in 1975 the City of Pittsburgh cut Freedom House’s funding and subsumed its personnel and operations into a newly established citywide EMS service.
In a follow-up interview, Mr. Moon described what happened next. “Despite a written agreement that our previous training would be accepted, it was not. As a result of constant belittling and additional needless class sessions, a great number of Freedom House personnel were systematically eliminated from employment with Pittsburgh E.M.S. When you eliminate the history makers, you essentially eliminate that part of history.””
From: https://www.forbes.com/sites/arthurkellermann/2024/02/08/americas-first-paramedics-were-black-their-achievements-were-overlooked-for-decades/?sh=208a6ff2392e
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It is far more difficult to practice personal harm reduction when mired in institutions that actively cause harm — this is why directly impacted people turn to activism and mutual aid to address social issues.
“To build a healthier America for all, we must confront the systems and policies that have resulted in the generational injustice that has given rise to racial and ethnic health inequities" - CDC Website
It’s important to see government recognition of this truth. But they are not the source of this truth. There are still political prisoners condemned to die in U.S. prisons for their involvement with the social movements that spoke truth to power many decades ago. If we want to achieve the goal of harm reduction, we need to honor that “the personal is political”, and listen to the political activists who risk their lives every day to stand up for the dignity and rights of their communities.
“Racism also deprives our nation and the scientific and medical community of the full breadth of talent, expertise, and perspectives needed to best address racial and ethnic health disparities.” - CDC Website
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“Music therapy is “a systematic process of intervention wherein the therapist helps the person to promote health, using music experiences and the relationships that develop through them as dynamic forces of change” (Bruscia 1998, p.20). During this process, a trained music therapist engages with the participant in a range of active and receptive approaches to listening to, discussing, creating, improvising and performing music.”
“Music therapy may be practised from a variety of theoretical orientations, and in the setting of substance abuse treatment may include elements of cognitive‐behavioural, humanistic, psychodynamic and/or neurobiological theory, among others. Music therapists work with abstinence‐based, controlled use, and in harm reduction contexts (Aldridge 2010; Ghetti 2004), in inpatient treatment centres, community mental health centres, adult day healthcare centres, state and general hospitals, therapeutic communities, and aftercare programmes (Aldridge 2010; Ghetti 2004; Silverman 2009)."
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The National Harm Reduction Coalition recognizes the Reproductive Justice movement as foundationally important to the Harm Reduction movement. What parallels to harm reduction concepts do you take away from the video above?
Here is an excerpt from an in-depth article on the concept of Reproductive Justice, written by Loretta Ross in 2017 (free download available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322536609_Reproductive_Justice_as_Intersectional_Feminist_Activism
What is Reproductive Justice?
In June 1994, twelve black women working in the reproductive health and rights movement birthed the concept of reproductive justice at a pro-choice conference on health care reform in Chicago. We created “reproductive justice” because we believed that true health care for women needed to include a full range of reproductive health services. While abortion is one primary health issue, we knew that abortion advocacy alone inadequately addressed the intersectional oppressions of white supremacy, misogyny, and neoliberalism. From the perspective of African American women, any health care plan must include coverage for abortions, contraceptives, well-woman preventive care, pre- and postnatal care, fibroids, infertility, cervical and breast cancer, infant and maternal morbidity and mortality, intimate partner violence, HIV/AIDS, and other sexually transmitted infections. In simplest terms, we spliced together the concept of reproductive rights and social justice to coin the neologism, “reproductive justice.”
“The 12 women and their affiliations at the time who became the founding mothers of the concept of reproductive justice were:
Toni M. Bond Chicago Abortion Fund
Reverend Alma Crawford Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Evelyn S. Field National Council of Negro Women
Terri James American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois
Bisola Maringay National Black Women’s Health Project, Chicago Chapter
Cassandra McConnell Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland
Cynthia Newbille National Black Women’s Health Project (now Black Women’s Health Imperative)
Loretta J. Ross Center for Democratic Renewal
Elizabeth Terry National Abortion Rights Action League of Pennsylvania
“Able” Mabel Thomas Pro-Choice Resource Center, Inc.
Winnette P. Willis Chicago Abortion Fund
Kim Youngblood National Black Women’s Health Project"
https://www.sistersong.net/
SisterSong is a Reproductive Justice advocacy organization that is fighting for the legal right to bodily autonomy. More information on their advocacy and legal work available on their website (linked above), and on the ACLU website:
WHAT'S AT STAKE
“Georgia physicians, reproductive health care providers, and advocates filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Fulton County on June 26, 2022 bringing a state constitutional challenge against H.B. 481, a law banning abortion at approximately six weeks of pregnancy — just two weeks after a person’s first missed period and before many people even know they are pregnant. This lawsuit comes one week after a federal appeals court allowed Georgia’s six-week ban to take effect for the first time since it was passed in 2019, causing an immediate, devastating crisis as clinics were forced to turn away patients in waiting rooms across the state and to cancel many upcoming appointments.”
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The effects of music on the brain.
“Music therapy may be practised from a variety of theoretical orientations, and in the setting of substance abuse treatment may include elements of cognitive‐behavioural, humanistic, psychodynamic and/or neurobiological theory, among others. Music therapists work with abstinence‐based, controlled use, and in harm reduction contexts (Aldridge 2010; Ghetti 2004), in inpatient treatment centres, community mental health centres, adult day healthcare centres, state and general hospitals, therapeutic communities, and aftercare programmes (Aldridge 2010; Ghetti 2004; Silverman 2009)."
—https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6472527/
CW: Objectification of the person who is the focus of the video; problematic documentary practices.
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The above PubMed Articles reference gamification and game theory as related to the Methodology of the Harm Reduction Heroes.
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Columbia-Greene Clubhouse Harm Reduction Capstone Project
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An example of a Library that could be created for an HRH program and a cat named Stuart for good measure.
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A N X I E T Y (feat. Doechii) - SoundCloud
Listen to A N X I E T Y (feat. Doechii) by Sleepy Hallow on #SoundCloud
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