Los Angeles Community Health Project

We have operated a community based harm reduction program in LA since 1991. Syringe access, healthcare and MAT navigation, education, and advocacy.

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

Slide from yesterdays event: the US makes up 5% of the worlds population, yet uses 80% of the opiates. Carry Naloxone.

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

A participant making roses for our volunteers. So sweet.

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

#OverdoseAwarenessDay #overdosepreventiom

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

We’re working Skid Row today. #syringeexchange #skidrow #lachp

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

@YaleSPH @Yale @SVermund @YaleMed @YaleNursing @gregggonsalves @annkurthnyc We don’t actually know what happened there, premature to call it overdose.

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

@maiasz Excellent

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

More time wasted debating #harmreduction’s merits will mean more Canadians lost to the #opioids epidemic: ⁦@globeandmail⁩ editorial https://t.co/T3scj0QO9O

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

Today: Hepatitis C screenings, Fentanyl testing strips, OD trainings and Naloxone, syringe access, linkage to care. See you there.

[Laurie Willhite 🙋🏼‍♀️ @ToxPharmD]

Even smart kids can make bad decisions. Talk to your pharmacist and get naloxone.

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

We are torn over this.

[Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW @MyHarmReduction]

Question for my fellow harm reductionists - given new study suggesting that calling them "Overdose Prevention Sites" may make Supervised Injection Facilities/Safer Consumption Spaces more palatable, do you think it would be helpful to start calling them that?

[Street Health Toronto @StreetHealthTO]

Saving lives is a moral imperative, not a political opinion
https://t.co/BD9KGTIKtR via @torontostar

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

In 2016, the CDC reported that overall life expectancy in the U.S. had dropped due to the surge of deaths caused by opioid overdose. https://t.co/buy9UYDQP8

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

Labor Day is coming up, so this next class will be September 10th. #overdosecrisis

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

Labor Day is coming up, so this next class will be September 10th.

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

Random reminder to pdx peeps, if someone is drug or alcohol affected in a way that is not an emergency, call CHIERS! 5032388132. They have other options and they are great.

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

7 year old harm reductionist, loading in Naloxone. #overdose #opioidcrisis

[Los Angeles Community Health Project @CommunityHeal17]

@Mike_Selick @PacificStand Thanks. We feel the same.