Harm Reduction History
What program opened its doors in 2022 on Massachusetts Avenue to serve and support women and transgender folks in the Mass/Cass area?
What is The Victory Connector?
These two STIs can be detected via a urine or swab sample.
What are gonorrhea and chlamydia?
(Local infections, must swab the area of sexual contact!)
First opened in 1912, this home for the Boston Red Sox is the oldest continually operating baseball stadium in the US.
What is Fenway Park?
not reusing or sharing these not only can prevent the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C, but also minimize damage to the skin and veins from painful burrs.
What are syringes?
Know colloquially as Top Surgery, this gender affirming surgical procedure will either remove or augment this part of the body.
What are the breasts?
In 2018, Governor Charlie Baker signed into law an act that creates a statewide standing order to allow any resident of Massachusetts to acquire this life-saving medication from any pharmacy in the state.
What is Narcan? (naloxone)
These are the three STIs that can be detected through a blood sample.
What are HIV, Hepatitis C, and Syphilis?
Thrown in 1773, this party held in Boston Harbor is known as one of the first catalysts of the American Revolution.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Using these can help you prevent burns or cuts from stems and bubbles.
What are pipe covers?
This hormone can result in softer skin, breast growth, decreased muscle mass/growth, redistribution of body fat, and thinning or slowed growth of body and facial hair in transgender individuals.
What is Estrogen?
This city was the first to open an SCS/OPC in the United States in 2021.
What is New York City? (OnPoint)
These strains of Hepatitis have vaccines available for them.
What are Hep A & B? (lasts 25 years)
There is no vaccination for Hep C, but there is treatment!
This charismatic Boston actor is probably most famous for his role as Captain America in the 2012 film "The Avengers".
Who is Chris Evans?
Doing this before you inject can help prevent skin infections and endocarditis.
What is sanitizing or sterilizing the skin? (Alcohol pads, BZK wipes, etc)
This is a blanket term that applies to anyone who doesn't identify as exclusively male or female
What is Nonbinary?
This city in the Pacific Northwest was the location of the first United States needle exchange program back in 1988.
What is Tacoma, Washington?
This is the name of the medication that you can take in order to prevent the transmission of HIV.
What is PrEP?
(Truvada, once daily pill)
(Apretude, bimonthly injection)
This Quincy band's single from their 2005 album "The Warrior's Code" went platinum after its use in the 2006 film "The Departed".
Who are the Dropkick Murpheys?
You should wait this long between administering doses of Narcan when responding to an opioid overdose.
What is 2-3 minutes?
This commonly prescribed hormone is considered a Schedule 3 Controlled Substance by the DEA.
What is Testosterone?
Dan Bigg and John Szyler were the co-founders of this Chicago-based harm reduction organization in 1992, which is known for promoting recovery as "any positive change, as a person defines it for him or herself".
What is the Chicago Recovery Alliance?
Originally treated with interferon, a medication notorious for its uncomfortable side effects, this infection can now be treated in 8-12 weeks with minimal side effects using medication like Harvoni.
What is Hepatitis C?
in 1919, 2.3 million gallons of this sticky substance flooded the streets of Boston, and was reported to being able to be smelled by residents for decades after.
What is Molasses?
This synthetic opioid that has recently started showing up in the Boston drug supply is twice as potent as fentanyl and may lead to unexpected drug reactions or "hot shots".
What is Protonitazine? (nitazines)
Feminizing hormone therapy does not affect this part of transition, leading some trans people to go to coaches and train it or seek surgical intervention.
What is the voice?