Harm Reduction:
By Any Means Necessary
The drug supply is changing, so our tactics must too. We’re radical activists and people who use drugs that are keeping each other alive by putting resources directly into the hands of those of us most impacted by this crisis. Your donation provides the tools, the advocacy, and the care needed to fight back against the rising tide of toxicity and neglect. Lives are on the line. Will you help us protect them?
Prioritizing Access to the Underserved
At Rebel Harm Reduction, we meet people where they are.
Traditional services can miss the people who need them most. We prioritize access to Full Spectrum Substance Analysis and life-saving Community-led Public Health resources directly to underserved communities and other vulnerable populations. Through honest conversation and evidence-based testing, we’re fighting back against a toxic supply and empowering people with the knowledge to stay safe.
Our work is multifaceted:
- Direct Action: Offering Point-of-Care Toxicological Testingand Market Monitoring and essential supplies to ensure safety in the absence of a regulated supply.
- Immediate Survival: Empowering individuals with fact-based, non-judgmental information to make safer decisions.
- Systems Change: Using our research and field data to inform the public health sector and advocate for a more effective, humane response to drug use.
The Crisis
- The Toxic Supply: Over 90% of the illicit opioid supply now contains fentanyl or its analogs, making every use a potential gamble.
- Hidden Dangers: Emerging additives like Xylazine (a veterinary sedative) are now found in nearly 25% of fentanyl samples, causing severe wounds and complicating overdose responses.
- The Access Gap: Often traditional public health institutions and mainstream alternative wellness communities fail to reach those most at risk. We help fill that gap by providing community-led, evidence-based survival strategies.
The Rebel Response: Our Framework for Action
- Filling the Gaps: We provide services to “unreachable” populations that traditional healthcare ignores, ensuring that life-saving information and technology isn’t a privilege reserved for the few.
- Decentralizing Care: By providing free and low cost full-spectrum substance analysis and testing supplies through multiple direct-to-user channels, we remove the barriers of transportation, stigma, and cost that prevent people from accessing safety.
- Low-Barrier Entry: No ID, no tedious paperwork, and no judgment. We ensure that the only requirement for help is a desire for safety.
- Rapid Preventative Health Interventions: Our FTIR testing can provide results in under 15 minutes, giving people the data they need to stay safe before they use.
- Evidence-Based Action: Research shows that people are 5x more likely to change their behavior—such as using less or not using alone—when they receive an unexpected test result.
- Navigating the Toxic Supply: We act as an early-warning system, identifying novel contaminants in the supply and alerting the community in real-time to prevent cluster overdoses.
- Peer-Led Trust: Because our team is led by people with lived experience, we have a 95% engagement rate in communities that often avoid traditional medical services.
- Strengthening the Safety Net: We train community members in overdose reversal and sample collection, turning bystanders into active participants in their neighborhood’s survival.
- Data as Power: We provide the community with the same high-level chemical analysis used by labs, empowering them to make informed decisions about their own bodies.
- Advocacy Through Evidence: We use our testing data to challenge outdated drug policies, proving that education and safety are more effective than criminalization.
- Dignity Over Discipline: Our model shifts the focus from “stopping use” to “stopping harm,” prioritizing the human right to health and autonomy regardless of substance use status.
- Transforming the Sector: By publishing our findings on the local and global drug markets, we force the public health sector to acknowledge and respond to the ground-level reality of drug use today.
Every donation is an investment in a safer, more informed community. Help us continue providing the non-judgmental, fact-based care that saves lives every day.
We aim to subsidize services to vulnerable and underserved populations through donations and other projects. Reach out to discuss options.
Our Impact
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Research & Advocacy
Leverage drug checking to provide data, analyses, and market insights on the drug market and contents themselves to influence policy, regulation, protocols, service delivery, and PWUD advocacy.
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Operational Support
Coordinate and staff harm reduction teams for events; medical team assistance; distributing educational and harm reduction resources/supplies
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Substance Analysis
Provide on-site and on-demand drug checking for organizations, events, and individuals
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Capacity Building & Education
Provide trainings, assist in research, and create/share/amplify relevant information
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Booking Our Services
We aim to subsidize services to vulnerable and underserved populations through donations and other projects. Reach out to discuss options.
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