Harm Reduction Practices in Communities

The 'Connecting to Culture' video series includes three videos. The videos are teaching tools intended to support discussions in First Nations communities about harm reduction, substance use and stigma. The series uses an Indigenous lens and includes the perspectives of Elders, peers and youth. Learn more: www.fnha.ca/about/news-and-ev...

[@nal004]

The actual effects of harm reduction involve you’re city receding into homeless w junkies yelling and fighting in you’re neighborhood

[@Vikkilatterman]

This is usually when the communities don’t allow the true harm reduction standards and working together to give them a place to go and feel loved. They need to understand In order to get them off the street they need to give them a place to go. A place they feel welcome. A place that they can still feel like a human being. Instead of just someone that people look past while they walk by. Then complain about it but don’t do anything about it to help it. True harm reduction allows the addict to quit on their own terms on their own time. I’m actually from Winnipeg and the politics of some of the practices here don’t allow the addicts anywhere to go after giving them clean supplies. It doesn’t make any sense to give them supplies but tell them to go out there alone and continue to wallow into despair. You are truly a beautiful light in a dark community. Everything you say is on the nose. The people I have lost from this in the generation I’ve grown up in isn’t normal. It makes you feel worse about it knowing you could have your loved ones lose you because you want to Self Medicate but don’t want to put that on your family. We need so much more love for our fellow addicts who struggle. ❤❤❤ keep up the great teaching.

[@nal004]

@@Vikkilatterman that’s very sweet but if you give an addict the option to quit or not to quit, 9/10 times they will not quit. They may say they want to quit but the won’t. I say this as an addict, they don’t need sympathy, they need discipline. Enabling an addict is arguably the most harmful thing you can do to them. Heroin and fentanyl are incredibly dangerous and addictive drugs and you guys have only provided them a cheaper and more accessible route to those drugs.