Harm Reduction Boston is comprised of a rag-tag group of current + former drug users, harm reductionists, activists, and public health professionals in the Boston area who believe that:

• For better and or worse, that licit and illicit drug use is part of our world and chooses to work to minimize its harmful effects rather than simply ignore or condemn them
• Drug use is a complex, multi-faceted phenomenon that encompasses a continuum of behaviors from severe abuse to total abstinence, and that some ways of using drugs are clearly safer than others.
• The non-judgmental, non-coercive provision of services and resources to people who use drugs and the communities in which they live in order to assist them in reducing attendant harm.
• Drug users and those with a history of drug use must have a real voice in the creation of programs and policies designed to serve them.
• Drug users themselves as the primary agents of reducing the harms of their drug use, and must have access to resources that empower drug users to share information and support each other.
• The realities of poverty, class, racism, social isolation, past trauma, sex-based discrimination and other social inequalities affect both people’s vulnerability to and capacity for effectively dealing with drug-related harm.

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