Current and former drug users advocating for the rights and fair treatment of people who use drugs
Kensington, Philadelphia
Joined March 2019
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1200 doses of IM NALOXONE placed directly in the hands of drug users with training in the past two months. Race is a social/economic construct. Drug use is a behavior. We work for the deconstruction of bullshit and the revival of JUSTICE.
Resources going to DAs and Police Departments will not solve the overdose crisis!!!
We've never heard a stupider idea....
Nothing about us, without us...
We need to be a majority of drug users on every board in the city of Philadelphia...for programs that are about people who use drugs!!!
You know what solves homelessness?
People looking for any excuse not to do the right thing.
Housing!!!!!!
We need to be running our spaces...
For us, by us... Where are drug user voices in the fight for safe consumption spaces???
Addiction is not disease. We don't need more doctors. Give us the resources.
We need housing and jobs. We need to be treated like humans.
PHL Drug Users Union retweeted
I mean, if Angela is riding for @chesaboudin to be the new DA of SF, I guess I do too.. Haha.
I’m skeptical about getting involved w/ politicians & everything that comes with it. But it’s not the answer, it’s simply a tactic for change.
If you live in SF, please vote for CHESA.
PHL Drug Users Union retweeted
THIS MUST BE SAID: Backing efforts to end America’s opioid epidemic is noble, but white people really need to think through why people of color who have endured similar atrocities aren’t automatically standing with you.
My latest for @phillymag.
phillymag.com/news/2019/10/0…
PHL Drug Users Union retweeted
“We maintain our consistent disagreement over whether it’s a lawful activity, and the fact that they have responded doesn’t change our respectful disagreement,” @aubreyjwhelan inquirer.com/health/safehous…
PHL Drug Users Union retweeted
#BREAKING: @NYCMayor, @NYCCouncil announce budget commitment to fund full pay parity for public defenders and civil legal services staff with Corporation Counsel by 2024. Our statement below. #PayParityYes #NoJusticeWithoutUs
Andre Burton, 30, stands for a portrait in Kensington. The opioid epidemic largely has been painted as affecting mostly whites, ...but Burton says heroin doesn't discriminate. “Chinese people shoot heroin,” he said, “Indian people shoot heroin."
Credit: @aubreyjwhelan
Great story @aubreyjwhelan
inquirer.com/health/opioid-o…
The naysayers will do anything, say anything to stop this from happening.
They are hateful people, that simply want drug users to die.
@YesToSCS
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Drug delivery resulting in death laws need to be abolished... You need to come out against them!!
@TomWolfPA @SecretaryLevine
@JoshShapiroPA
Your silence is acceptance, it is violence. people's lives have been ruined. It is a death sentence.
Now people are afraid to save someone because of drug induced homicide laws...
@JoshShapiroPA how does this help good samaritans? Now we are back to the days of people being left to die in dumpsters.
Smoking ban does not make sense.
Harm reduction includes tobacco.
Is this care or coercion???
@DBHIDS
People do not need another reason to leave treatment... Get rid of the smoking ban!!
People are leaving treatment AMA because they can't smoke. Change this policy.
@MariaQSanchez @CMMarkSquilla
@DBHIDS
Smoking is harm reduction.
Look at the data... If you encouraged people to smoke instead of injecting, people might live.
@DBHIDS