The War On Drugs Is A War On People. Full Stop.
Community-centric harm reduction services by and for people who use drugs
in the Greater STL Metro East area and beyond.
Community-centric harm reduction services by and for people who use drugs
in the Greater STL Metro East area and beyond.
WE ARE people united by lived and living experience across the entire spectrum of drug use, collectively guided by the principles of liberation, mutual aid, and harm reduction. We exist within our community - an alternative solution to the sanitized institutional model of public health - meant to embrace individual wellness and drug user health though education and community driven evidence-based overdose prevention strategies. We work to remedy the existing barriers to the accessible, equitable distribution of resources, traditionally gatekept under the misnomer of "scarcity", a false narrative perpetuated by non-profit industrial complex and charity models. We fully embrace a mutual aid approach and utilize a horizontal organizational structure and participatory decision making framework to build power with our program participants and impacted community members.
Seeing a need for low-barrier harm reduction services in our community, we began our grassroots harm reduction work in 2017. Today we serve over 600+ unique program participants in Madison, St. Clair, & Jersey Counties in the Greater STL Metro East area & beyond. Our service model includes: mobile & mail-based delivery of all safer use supplies (safer smoking, safer injecting, safer snorting, and other alternative routes of consumption), naloxone (Narcan), stimulant use supplies (PNP/chemsex gear + worx), confidential drug checking services by request, safer sex supplies and connection to reproductive health service providers, peer centered harm reduction guidance and overdose reversal education , point-of-care wound care services, and participant-initiated referrals to service providers and connection to other community resources.
Our program services are ALWAYS FREE.
We aim to empower people who use drugs with holistic wellness education and accessible options for safer drug use supplies and overdose education by creating authentic relationships built with safety and trust. We actualize our deeply held principles and advocate relentlessly for compassionate and progressive evidence-based drug policy reform on local, state, and national levels to promote health equity and work to reduce the impact of systemic harms weaponized against people who use drugs and disproportionately affect the lives of marginalized individuals with intersectional identities within our communities. We intentionally practice radical love and hospitality to engage PWUD and meet them where they are, just as they are, without judgement or implied expectation to change.
We are an intersectional grassroots collective of liberatory-minded harm reduction practitioners with lived and living experience who provide evidence-based & principled harm redux support for people who use drugs in the Greater STL Metro East area in IL. Our progressive mutual aid model builds power with drug users & sustains our organizational resiliency since we began our work in 2017.
Connect with us via email, direct message, or text to stay informed about our current and upcoming events such as community overdose reversal trainings, state and legislative advocacy opportunities, & community organizing events.
We sustain equity by blending individual autonomy and self-advocacy with a collective community mindset. We utilize a mutual aid model hybrid framework for supply distro that cultivates our participants' trust, organic community care, & autonomy, allowing true low-barrier access to our drug user health services that prioritizes the safety
We sustain equity by blending individual autonomy and self-advocacy with a collective community mindset. We utilize a mutual aid model hybrid framework for supply distro that cultivates our participants' trust, organic community care, & autonomy, allowing true low-barrier access to our drug user health services that prioritizes the safety and well-being of marginalized drug users disenfranchised by oppressive systems that rely on punishment and surveillance that harm folx that as having multiple intersectional marginalized identities.
Please contact us 2-3 days in advance before you are expected to run out of safer use supplies. Thank you!
Test before you ingest! Participants can access our confidential community-based drug checking services free of charge. If you need more information or have questions about how drug checking works, please message us here or text 618.882.2452 for info about alternative messaging platforms.
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