Needling for Change
Needling for Change
Inside, nurses watch as people in twelve booths inject heroin or other drugs; they provide clean needles and syringes, teach best-practices for injecting to avoid infection, and care for drug users' wounds. When users overdose—which … In Insite's …
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Off Beat: Hudson woman raising drug awareness after daughter's death
Alysa Ivy, a talented young artist from Hudson, created this painting before she died last May of a heroin overdose at age 21. Alysa's mother, Karen Hale, now sees the references to love and hate and the question mark behind the word alive as symbolic …
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