Track promoting using drug checking services if available before the rave - designed to use in harm reduction education

Test It First

In this episode, Cindy Burzinski, Director of Wisconsin Voices for Recovery, speaks with Tarah Stangler, Director of Harm Reduction Services at OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center in Madison, WI. Tarah describes the components, history, vision, and challenges of the OutReach program as well as their approach of liberatory and grassroots harm reduction work, especially within the context of queer and BIPOC communities. Tarah describes the challenges the harm reduction program faces and how they would like to expand this work and concludes with messages for those who haven't bought into harm reduction efforts in their communities or for themselves. 

OutReach website:  https://www.outreachmadisonlgbt.org/  

Tarah’s email:   tarahs@lgbtoutreach.org  

OutReach main number on website 608-255-8582, ask for Tarah 

Harm Reduction: OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center

Harm reduction specialist Adriana Curado joins us in this episode of #GFNInsights to highlight how frontline harm reduction interventions have positively impacted marginalised communities in Portugal.

GFN Insights #2 | HARM REDUCTION IN ACTION | Featuring Adriana Curado

Kevin Molloy, our beloved colleague who ran the Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholarship Programme from 2018 until he passed away in 2021, helped shape and mentor a new generation of tobacco harm reduction practitioners. Joining us today are Jeffrey Zamora, a film maker and THRSP Scholar, as well as Kevin's wife Anne Molloy,  and Jon Derricott, Kevin's long-standing friend, to highlight Jeffrey's new film "Love Kevin".

GFN Insights #3 | REMEMBERING A HARM REDUCTION STAR | Featuring Jeffrey Zamora and Anne Molloy

From highs, such as Sweden's standout THR success in reaching smokefree status, to lows like continued opposition and misinformation from major public health bodies, 2024 has been a year of ups and downs for THR. But underlining all this news is the resounding progress consumers are making in changing perceptions of safer products - join Will Godfrey for a full rundown of this year's news in this episode of GFN's New Year's Wishes!

GFN New Years' Wishes for 2025 #1 | GAINS AND LOSSES | Will Godfrey

What will 2025 hold in store for consumers of safer products, and how will it compare to 2024? Lindsey Stroud and Alberto Gómez Hernandez look back on a year of highs and lows, and share their hopes and wishes for the year ahead in this episode of GFN's New Year's Wishes!

GFN's New Year's Wishes for 2025 #2 | GFN TV's 2025 PREDICTIONS

In this episode from the Harm Reduction International Conference 2019, Carla and Annie catch up with Carol Strike and Gillian Kolla -- legends from the frontlines of the overdose crisis in Toronto, Canada, about police and their attitudes to safe injecting facilities, setting up an unsanctioned safe injecting site in a public park in Toronto and issues in doing research with highly criminalised communities.

Links

Creating and sustaining cooperative relationships between supervised injection services and police: A qualitative interview study of international stakeholders doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.08.001

A scoping review of harm reduction training for police officers doi.org/10.1111/dar.12904

Canada's overdose crisis: authorities are not acting fast enough
doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30040-4

Toronto Overdose Prevention Service
twitter.com/TorontoOPS

SpeakEasy S4 Ep6: Carol Strike and Gillian Kolla: where research and frontline service delivery meet

As part of a series of interviews from HRI19, in this episode Annie and Carla speak with legendary activist Zoe Dodd about setting up a ‘pop-up’ SIF, her Masters research and life and politics on the frontlines of the Canadian OD crisis.

LINKS

Zoe Dodd on Twitter
twitter.com/ZoeDodd

Toronto Overdose Prevention Society
twitter.com/TorontoOPS

SpeakEasy S4 Ep7: Zoe Dodd: Fighting to win

It’s our final HR19 episode this week. First up, Carla steps outside (literally) with Graham Brown to discuss the ‘spaghetti and meatballs’ project on peer-led programs, also known as What, Works and Why or W3. Our final guest of the special HR19 episodes is Andrew Scheibe from Cape Town, South Africa. Andrew is an harm reduction implementer, with a focus on implementation science that is valid in local contexts.

LINKS

W3 (What Works and Why)
w3project.org.au/

ARCSHS at La Trobe
www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs

TB HIV Care
www.tbhivcare.org/

Andrew Scheibe
www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Scheibe

SpeakEasy S4 Ep8: Graham Brown and Andrew Scheibe

In this in-depth conversation, Philip Hansen reflects on the evolving tobacco industry in Europe and across global markets. He discusses the dual forces of strict regulation and rapid innovation, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges they create. Hansen addresses taxation, exclusion from policymaking, the role of harm reduction strategies, and the importance of preserving consumer freedom of choice. He also explores how different regions—from Sweden to Germany, Asia, and the US—approach tobacco policies and innovation, offering insight into the balance between public health goals, economic interests, and industry transformation.

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#65 Hansen: Regulation, Innovation, and Freedom of Choice in the Future of Tobacco - PART 2

The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) has taken place every year since 2014 and is the only international conference to focus on how vapes, nicotine pouches, Swedish snus and heated tobacco can help people switch away from smoking. Building on the success of an event that attracts hundreds of in-person participants and thousands of online delegates, this is the homepage of GFN•TV, the broadcast arm of the GFN stable.

GFN•TV regularly broadcasts GFN•TV news and interviews, given by Brent Stafford. We also livestream the annual GFN conference, live from Warsaw and release all the session videos and GFN•TV Commentary Team discussions post event.

Tune in to hear world-leading experts, tobacco harm reduction advocates and nicotine consumers discuss the latest scientific, regulatory and policy developments.

From our unique annual event, to year-round reporting of the issues that matter in tobacco harm reduction, GFN has got it covered.

Fun side project using AI to create bops with safe harm reduction messaging in them!

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New tracks tagged #harmreduction