Local

Vecindarios 901

Vecindarios 901 is a rapid response group local to Memphis, aimed at combatting and responding to detentions carried out by ICE. They host trainings for those who would like to legally observe and monitor ICE, field both response and reconnaissance teams to maintain a picture of ICE’s activities in Memphis.

A Betor Way

A Betor Way is another harm reduction org based in Memphis.

Tennessee Harm Reduction

Tennessee Harm Reduction primarily delivers NARCAN (naloxone, a drug useful for opioid overdose reversal) by mail. They also provide a free drug checking service.

Education

Decarcerate Memphis

Decarcerate is a prison abolitionist organization aiming to end imprisonment and legal slavery in Memphis. The Drug War is largely responsible for many incarcerated people’s captivity, especially Black and brown folks. Uneven, deliberate stigmatization of substances more often used by people of color compared to, for example, alcohol or tobacco, is a product and example of systemic racism. Reducing harm for those who use drugs is not limited to the harms inherent to drug use, but extends to those harms inflicted by the state.

Errowid

Errowid is a nonprofit “Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives.” They have an extensive log of first-hand accounts of experience with almost every drug imaginable, and combinations thereof.

Other Harm Reduction Organizations

Smokeworks

Pipes are harm reduction! Smokeworks primarily focuses on alternatives to injection, and donates pipes to harm reduction organizations across the US, including 901HR!

Here is their bibliography of scientific resources around public health and pipes.

Points of Distribution

POD focuses on safer injection supplies, and provides a gap fund to smaller organizations like ours aiming to get off the ground and become self-sufficient.