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A reporter learns to go slow and gain trust for series on harm reduction for drug users
posted 01/17/2019
"You can’t just waltz into a community of people who are marginalized and under threat, stick a microphone in their faces and start asking them questions," writes reporter Judith Mernit.
Can harm reduction save lives and improve health of drug users?
posted 06/26/2018
Syringe exchanges and overdose kits aren’t always reaching poor and rural Californians, but advocates of the harm reducation approach are trying to make that happen.

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A reporter learns to go slow and gain trust for series on harm reduction for drug users
"You can’t just waltz into a community of people who are marginalized and under threat, stick a... more »
posted 01/17/19
Can harm reduction save lives and improve health of drug users?
Syringe exchanges and overdose kits aren’t always reaching poor and rural Californians, but... more »
posted 06/26/18

Judith Mernit's Work
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Project: Science supports supervised injection sites. Why don’t politicians agree?
Safe injection facilities represent the highest ideal of harm reduction services for people who inject drugs, yet in the United States remain almost prohibitively controversial.
Project: Can harm reduction roll back an epidemic of drug-related deaths and disease?
The practice of harm reduction seeks not to shame people who use drugs into giving them up, but simply to provide them with the tools to improve their health.
Project: Drug users fight for acceptance in California’s deep north
Judith Lewis Mernit’s reporting on harm reduction in rural California was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2018 Impact Fund.