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Volunteers, clinicians urge Cincinnati to boost harm reduction as overdose deaths rise among Black residents
Summary
Members of the volunteer A1 Stigma Free Coalition and city health partners told the Healthy Neighborhoods Committee that fentanyl and stimulant mixtures are driving higher overdose deaths among Black Cincinnatians and asked for city support for outreach, prevention and harm-reduction supplies.
Speakers from the volunteer A1 Stigma Free Coalition told the Cincinnati Healthy Neighborhoods Committee that overdose deaths are climbing in the city’s Black neighborhoods and urged the city to support community-based harm reduction and prevention work.
The coalition’s founder, Monte Barnett, said the group was born in Avondale and focuses on reducing stigma around overdose and improving access to culturally appropriate treatment. “I share that with them and I let them see what recovery looks like,” Barnett said, noting he has been in recovery eight years and that volunteers do “boots on the ground” outreach where people are more receptive to workers who “look like them.”
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