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  • The Coronavirus Is Blowing Up Our Best Response to the Opioid Crisis

    Zachary Siegel

    July 29, 2020 |

    The New Republic |

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    Response Location: United States, Midland, Michigan

    The coronavirus pandemic has correlated with an increase in overdose deaths in the United States, likely due to people going against one of the "central tenets of safety when using drugs: Never use alone" as well as governments' longstanding stigma against allowing supervised consumption sites. To overcome this, a harm reduction service in Midland, Michigan is connecting volunteer operators with "people who have no choice but to use alone" via telephone as a means to offer help if something goes wrong.

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