WIRED discusses harm reduction and helping users stay safe with New York–based nonprofit director, Sam Rivera.
I read that OnPoint requires around $4.5 million per year to operate around-the-clock. How difficult or easy has it been to get the funding you need?
Very difficult. We’ve been staying afloat by fundraising, having the support of a number of amazing individuals and a few foundations. The part of our work that is looked at as the illegal element is theof drug use. Once people have used, we’re just providing basic harm reduction services. The observation is just a small part of our work.
Everybody’s waiting for the results of the Safehouse lawsuit. A Safehouse win wouldn’t eliminate the crack house statute, but it would definitely open the door to show how wrong it is. When you’re talking to people who still say that overdose prevention centers are enabling drug use, how do you respond?these folks are going to use. The OPCs have almost 3,100 registered participants. We’re working with folks who are already currently using. We’re doing everything possible to keep them alive. Once they say to us, at any point, that they want to stop, we respond immediately. We go into action right away, so we are in no way enabling.
If someone comes in to use the OPC, they’ll voice that, and if they’ve been with us before, we’ll sign them in. We ask a series of questions before they enter: What are you going to use? How much? If you weren’t here, where would you use? A large percentage of them will say they would have used in the alley around the corner of their block, inside a restaurant bathroom, or in a park nearby.
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