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National Harm Reduction Coalition
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🧵When funding is cut for life-saving #HarmReduction programs including #SyringeServicesPrograms (#SSPs), lives are on the line. While this @minnpost.com story via Pine Journal Journal focuses on Minnesota, this is an ever-present issue happening across the country. We know how.. bit.ly/MNSSPFunding

bit.lyMinn. needle exchange programs at risk of closure as state funding dries upAdvocates point to shifts in addiction treatment philosophy at the federal level and worry the cuts are a sign of things to come.
National Harm Reduction Coalition
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to save lives — we need the resources to do more of this. "Ryan Kelly, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School with a specialty in addiction medicine, commended Minnesota’s long history of supporting SSPs and other harm reduction work. MDH staff understand the...

National Harm Reduction Coalition
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larger public health benefits, he said. SSPs 'keep people alive and save a ton of money,' he said. 'They don’t just provide a place where someone has a bunch of syringes and they’ll collect them. They build relationships and link people to care.'”

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