Harm Reduction Instagram was poppin' in 2018! We review our favorite accounts of the year where we look to find complex philosophical concepts broken down in well designed, pop culture themed graphics, drug user organizing history, updates on local movement organizing work happening around North America, and cute merch.

While instagram can at times be a platform for sharing superficial information, we find harm reduction instagram to be a valuable source for information and visuals on what it means to be a harm reductionist, drug user, and/or advocate for drug policy reform and overdose prevention in the current moment.

Indiana Recovery Alliance @indiana_recovery_alliance

The realest harm reduction fact:

Marilou Gagnon @ml_gagnon

Marilou is a bad ass Canadian nurse who rocks all of the best harm reduction gear and shares updates on new and emerging research, as well as documentation of harm reduction movement organizing in Canada.

Inland Empire Harm Reduction @inlandempireharmreduction

Inland Empire has some of the best design work (and maybe the best harm reduction t-shirt in the game) that cleverly packages harm reduction philosophy into beautiful square-sized art work.

Community Health Project LA @community_health_project_la

We love CHPLA's documentation of what a working syringe exchange program and the existence of a harm reduction organization looks like on a day to day basis. Plus we love our dogs and think of them as honorary outreach workers too.

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Maine Access Points @maineaccesspoints

Maine Access Points is a newer harm reduction organization providing naloxone access for rural Maine and had the hottest swag of the 2018 national harm reduction conference. We're waiting (not so patiently) for the launch of their online merch shop.

Bmore Power @bmorepower

Bmore Power (of Baltimore) is crushing the rest of the harm reduction world in integrating overdose prevention services (naloxone distribution and drug testing) with community organizing that is solid, smart, and grounded. They set the standard for what building power can look like for people who use drugs.

Sonoran Prevention Works @sonoranpreventionworks

Our #1 harm reduction crush, SPWAZ is based in Phoenix and uses instagram to demonstrate how harm reduction organizations can strategically build capacity and power in red states.

Tino Fuentes @onit4you

An OG harm reductionist, Tino now spends his time testing drugs for fentanyl in the New York / New Jersey metro area and teaching users to modify their patterns of use in order to prevent fentanyl overdose. Tino uses instagram as a platform for sharing real time information on where he's finding fentanyl in the city.

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I heard a few people dropped off of this, I wish I could tell what’s the percentage of both these positives. This came up really quick and dark. Most people know my theory, that’s all it is, it’s not confirmed that this it what it is, but I’ve followed really quick and really dark, it’s higher percentage but again this is not from BTNX or any research/lab thing, it’s my thing in the harder to reversed overdoses have come up this way. So if that’s right this would have both a higher concentration of H and F, but again it’s just me not something that’s been researched. This is Newark NJ product. I’m going to have to lab this, first I’m going to let the cooker stand for a few days adding water than dumping it out at about the 3rd it 4th day I’ll test to see how fast and how dark it comes up.

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