Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance

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[CAPHRA (Coalition of AP Harm Reduction Advocates) @caphraorg]

Harm reduction is risk management. It is about moving people away from combustion and high risk oral tobacco. The goal is less harm, fewer funerals, fewer chronic diseases. Nicotine use is not the outcome. Smoking decline is the outcome. #HarmReduction #HealthPolicy https://t.co/ZcGmWP1BEH

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@kidcobol @DownHooligan Force doesn’t heal. It only hides the wound

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@DownHooligan “Confinement” isn’t treatment, it’s surrender.

Harm reduction exists because we’ve tried punishment, shame, and cages — and people still died.

You don’t cure suffering by locking it away.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@achtera @yancykm Harm reduction wasn’t born out of idealism — it came from a broken healthcare system that made compassion the last safety net.
Shrinking care doesn’t make people healthier, it just makes graves cheaper.
Compassion isn’t exploitation. It’s survival.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@achtera @yancykm Medical error is tragic — and it proves exactly why harm reduction matters.

The answer to failure in healthcare isn’t giving up on it; it’s making it safer, more accountable, and more compassionate.

Harm reduction is that safety net — keeping people alive while systems improve.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@DisaffectedPod @Nagolympian @vasiliki1928 Life has a strange way of humbling us.
None of us are as far from the edge as we like to think — one breakdown, one tragedy, one twist of luck, and the street gets closer than comfort.
The line between “not my problem” and “my reality” is thinner than most people ever realize.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@Nagolympian @DisaffectedPod @vasiliki1928 Respect for admitting that — we’re all works in progress.

The truth is, so are most people we meet through harm reduction.
Nobody wakes up choosing addiction, but everyone deserves a chance to keep working toward better — alive.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@Nagolympian @vasiliki1928 @DisaffectedPod I hear you — the instinct to protect is valid. But institutionalization isn’t compassion; it’s containment.
Evidence shows forced treatment and confinement raise overdose risk once people are released.
HR keeps people alive so real recovery stays possible by choice, not coercion

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@ChickenoBristol @guyfelicella No, harm reduction isn’t about giving people drugs,it’s about keeping them alive through overdose prevention, clean supplies, and connection to care.
Comparing that to Nazi Germany is not only false, it’s offensive to the people who’ve actually survived both addiction and history

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@mtnbiker303 @dnvr_is_burning Giving out sterile supplies was never meant to end overdoses -it’s meant to stop HIV, HepC, and keep people alive long enough to reach recovery.
The spike isn’t from harm reduction; it’s from fentanyl flooding the supply and untreated trauma.
Without HR, 421 would be a body count

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@vasiliki1928 @Nagolympian @DisaffectedPod I respect anyone documenting what they see on the streets. But showing suffering isn’t the same as understanding its cause.

Harm reduction doesn’t encourage decay—it prevents death.

You can’t rebuild a life if you’re not alive to start.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@achtera @yancykm These stats come from the CDC, NIH, and SAMHSA — not “the drug industry.”

If doctors made money from deaths, they’d be out of business fast. Harm reduction keeps people alive long enough to recover.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@james_jabroni @Benjamin_Kolar @SpiffSpace62 @iamAtheistGirl @FBScienceSub Meaning doesn’t have to be eternal to be real.

The sunset still matters even if it fades.

We make meaning in the moments we’re here — not because they last forever, but because we do them at all.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@achtera @yancykm Suboxone isn’t the problem — it’s one of the few tools proven to cut overdose deaths by 50%.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@achtera @yancykm Overdose deaths didn’t rise because of harm reduction — they rose despite the lack of it.
When prescription opioids got restricted, the market flooded with fentanyl. Harm reduction is the only reason the numbers aren’t even worse.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@twitxtruth @kevinvdahlgren @TrumanB18172059 True — but you can’t teach a man to fish if he’s already drowned.

Harm reduction keeps him alive long enough to learn.

We’re not against teaching people to fish.
We’re just the ones pulling them out of the water first.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@SherryLynneK @kevinvdahlgren @ChooseFreedom7 The heartbreak is real — we feel it every day.

But harm reduction isn’t what’s stealing funding from rehab or housing. It’s what steps in because those things are underfunded.

We keep people alive until they can reach the “real rehabilitation” you’re talking about.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@kevinvdahlgren The “permanent solution” is housing, treatment, and healthcare — things outreach workers don’t control budgets for.

Harm reduction isn’t the problem; it’s the only system still showing up while everyone else looks away.

We keep people alive until policy catches up.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@iTranscendent @dobetterdnvr I’m glad you made it out and are doing better. Recovery stories like yours remind people what’s possible when compassion meets persistence.

[Connecticut Harm Reduction Alliance @ReductionHarmCT]

@matteberhardt1 @dobetterdnvr If harm reduction was a “slush fund,” it’d be a pretty bad one — most staff barely make enough to live, while preventing thousands of deaths and hospital bills that cost taxpayers millions.

The only thing endless here is the work of keeping people alive.