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🗣️ Social Pulse

Innovation

• 🧰 So the short term response strategy is to flood the zone to increase availability as much as possible. Make what you can, take a local-out approach to tap into stocks of things you can't make. We're doing this with the HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits at a state-by-state level, for example. - bsky.app
• 🤔 This is personal choice, not an ethical duty. I’m not sure what makes a rational duty different from an ethical one in this context. Harm reduction by voting is not going to have positive effects every time. I don’t think it makes sense to hold to it every time. So I voted 3rd party. - bsky.app
• 🎯 I'm attending National Day Laborer Organizing Network's event, “Adopt a Day Labor Corner Training Series: Harm reduction post ICE Arrest” - sign up now to www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/... - bsky.app

Harm Reduction Discourse

• 🤝 Public policy should be based on how humans actually behave, not on moral fantasies. Safer spaces, honest conversations, and harm reduction protect everyone. Criminalization protects no one. - bsky.app

🏙 City Updates

• 💊 - [Nashville, TN] - November 20, 2025 - Metro Public Health Department Announces New Naloxone Vending Machine Locations - nashville.gov
• 🚑 - [Dallas, TX] - October 8, 2025 - Dallas County Announces Expansion of Overdose Response Team to Five Cities - dallascounty.org
• 🧠 - [Portland, OR] - September 23, 2025 - NEWS RELEASE: County Behavioral Health Call Center awarded national accreditation from the American Association of Suicidology - multco.us
• 💊 - [Austin, TX] - August 29, 2025 - City of Austin Highlighting Local Information and Resources for International Overdose Awareness Day - austintexas.gov

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