Emily interviews Emily Winkelstein about her job on a HepC project, and the stigma faced by both people with HepC and people who use drugs in general.
Video by: Nigel Brunsdon
Nigel Brunsdon is the owner of Injecting Advice. He’s been working in harm reduction since the 1990’s, previously a frontline needle programme worker he now splits his time between photography and developing online resources for drugs workers and users.
A large part of harm reduction work is discussing sharing issues with people who use drugs. Of course this is mainly focused around stopping sharing behaviours. But shouldn’t we be finding out why someone shares first?
How things are explained will, of course, have a huge impact on how they are remembered. I’m a fan of explaining things with analogy. So I thought I’d share the one I use with people when I’m explaining the need to develop more coping strategies.
This is the third and final part of my raising a vein series of articles, previous ones have covered using warmth and using exercise, now I’m going to cover slapping and using gravity.