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 Substance 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
Turning Data into Power
We leverage high-level chemical analysis to generate real-time insights into the toxic drug market and provide the community with the critical data needed to improve safety service delivery. Our market research arms People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) with the facts they need to advocate for themselves.
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Operational Support
Providing a Perimeter of Care
We provide expert, peer-led safety teams for community events and festivals, ensuring that a professional harm reduction presence is always within reach. Our operational teams are staffed by peers who understand the unique needs of the community. Whether we are assisting medical teams or providing point-of-care substance testing, we ensure that every gathering has a safety net of trained technicians, responders, life-saving supplies, and non-judgmental education—preventing emergencies before they happen.
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Substance Analysis
Laboratory Analysis for the Community
Rebel Harm Reduction provides on-demand, high-tech drug checking for individuals, community events, partner organizations, and secure delivery and drop-offs. Through specialized substance analysis services, we provide non-judgmental results that allow people to make informed health decisions. This data-driven approach doesn't just save individual lives—it provides critical market insights that we use to warn the public and shift policy.
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Capacity Building & Education
Empowering a Network of Responders and Advocates
We don't just provide services; we build the community’s capacity to care for itself. Through peer-led training and "Popular Education" models, we turn bystanders into first responders. We provide expert-led training for healthcare providers and local organizations, assist in groundbreaking academic research, and synthesize complex market data into actionable information. By creating and amplifying life-saving research and resources, we ensure that the latest harm reduction strategies are never gatekept and building resilience from the ground up.
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Of all the forms of inequality,
injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Booking Our Services
We are committed to prioritizing access for those who need it most. By donating to our Open Collective, you directly subsidize high-level substance analysis and outreach for vulnerable community members across the region at zero cost. We offer flexible partnership options for individuals and organizations looking to make a deep, localized impact. Contact us today to learn how your contribution can bring radical care to our communities.
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