This event is taking place as part of the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair, three days of workshops and tabling with music performances at night.

Harm reduction practices amongst people who use drugs (PWUD) have been around forever. Over recent years, harm reduction has become more normalized in mainstream society and has become a central talking point within the medical industrial complex. Specifically, big pharma companies, like Emergent BioSolutions and Hikma Pharmaceuticals, have been spreading propaganda to promote the mass distribution of naloxone, whilst intentionally making their products more harmful and inaccessible to PWUD. Although the messaging that Emergent BioSolutions and Hikma Pharmaceuticals have been sending with their naloxone-based products, Narcan™ and Kloxxado™, seems to be rooted in good faith, the blanket concept that “everyone” should have high doses of naloxone decentralizes PWUD and decreases the likelihood of PWUD having low-barrier access to the resources and knowledge they need for themselves and their communities. This is unacceptable.

It’s time we bring harm reduction back to the people. This workshop will be all about liberating knowledge and resources to PWUD and the communities that work closely with them. The workshop will be broken into two main parts: part one will be a conceptual analysis of best practices for harm reduction services, highlighting the importance of liberating knowledge and resources specifically to PWUD, and part two will be basic trainings on wound care and how to perform an OD reversal with both IM and nasal naloxone.