RCHRP Class Resources
for your broadened service delivery

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Harm Reduction Works meetings - see their readings & digital meetings calendar; all are welcome to meetings labeled ‘Open’
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‘Getting Off Right: A Safety Manual for Injection Drug Users’
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Racism of the Well-Intended: Examining Privilege & Power (video) feat. Jim Wuelfing & Art Woodard
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Undoing Drugs: The Untold History of Harm Reduction & the Future of Addiction (2021) by Maia Szalavitz (history of the movement)
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarcerations in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (exactly what it sounds like; this is essential reading)
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Fighting for Space by Travis Lupick (story of how drug user unions took power back in Vancouver, helped to create/legalize low-income housing & the nation’s first Safe Injection Facility
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Dr. Carl Hart Books (researcher/Columbia professor/author/person who uses drugs - challenges normative thinking about drugs/drug use)
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2017 National Recovery Study - demonstrates that a high percentage of people in the U.S. use substances and identify as ‘in recovery’ (John Kelly et al)
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Drug User Unions - NC Survivors’ Union & links to many others
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Debunking Marijuana ‘Gateway Theory' (fact sheet)
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Changing the Narrative - resource for changing the way drug/addiction/recovery issues are represented in the news media
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SUD Language infographic w/ researcher-author interview (infographic also below)