In 2020 alone, more than 100,000 North Americans died preventable opioid-related deaths. Here’s how you can help to reverse opioid overdoses and keep yourself—and your community safe
Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard
Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard is a drug-user activist, harm reductionist, and journalist covering drugs & trans life. She currently works in frontline harm reduction services; freelances for publications including The Intercept, The Nation, Healthline, and others; and organizes for drug user power and health as the co-founder of the Socialist Drug Politics Organizing Committee, an affiliate of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America. Previously, she was the original staff writer at Filter, one of the internet’s only online magazines dedicated to harm reduction and drug-policy journalism.