Investing resources toward integrating police forces in the harm reduction response can detract from community efforts to reallocate funding away from law enforcement.
Experts call for immediate action to curb the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the overdose crisis, including through ramping up harm reduction efforts.
The fabricated idea of a monstrous, disposable, 'other' from whom society has to be protected at all costs is at the heart of the catastrophe of mass incarceration.
To reduce deaths, Scotland must abandon failed punitive responses and prioritise harm reduction as part of a package of measures to promote health and welfare.
