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901 Harm Reduction, Memphis, TN (2026)

05/30/2026

Some of our most caring and compassionate folks need your help! This couple was arrested by MPD after being pulled over for a broken taillight. Since her release, the wife has sold all of the belongings she could possibly sell, including very sentimental items, and hasn't slept since her release, all because she needs her husband released from 201 Poplar! He is a beloved member of our community, and also has a medical condition that the jail is not taking seriously. PLEASE if you have the means to do so, help us help her get her husband out of 201 Poplar!
We all know that jail is a human rights violation, and nobody deserves to be treated so horribly.
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05/26/2026

Something we hear quite often from unhoused PWUD in these Memphis streets:
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“The people out here are my family. The 901 Harm Reduction team is my family. Y’all are more family to me than my real family.”
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As much as our 901HR team often feels the same, it’s heartbreaking to hear because we know why. So many people who use drugs (PWUD) have been rejected, hidden, or judged by their own families bc of the stigma created by the so-called “War on Drugs.” Parents, siblings, nieces, nephews, and loved ones become treated like shameful secrets instead of loved ones deserving of care, dignity, & support.

That shame & stigma were never accidental. The “War on Drugs” has always functioned as a scapegoat: blaming drugs & those who use them for society’s deeper failures, while ignoring the poverty, trauma, isolation, violence, & hopelessness driving so many to use in the first place. THIS IS BY DESIGN!
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Many use to cope & survive, yet feel forced to hide it. We live in a society where countless people are closeted about their use bc punishment & stigma make honesty unsafe. That's exactly what keeps drug use dangerous, leads to "addiction", & causes overdose deaths.
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Willie (working on floor) built a custom bike FOR FREE for our Exec Director, , simply bc she needed it. At 5ft tall, finding a bike that fit her while accommodating cargo/storage needs felt impossible. Willie has also answered emergency 901HR calls to help protect our domestic violence survivors.
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Montrell & Keasha found chosen family through the q***r-safe fun at , each other, Willie, and 901HR. Amber (far right), our newest 901HR organizer, is proudly trans-femme. Thanks to initiating a partnership with us, engaging in our offered harm redux training, and their collaboration, we’ve also been able to connect q***r PWUD to their recently funded housing program. Amber was recently accepted into OUTMemphis’ youth housing program! Since then, she’s become a trusted source for our q***r PWUD like Montrell/Keasha!
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This is what mutual aid, chosen family, and community care looks like. In a society built on isolation, punishment, and abandonment, THIS IS RESISTANCE! 🙌

05/20/2026

UPDATE!!! Our SSP (Syringe Services Program) weekly day/time has changed!
New Date: EVERY Wednesday
New Time: 6pm-8pm
It shouldn't be controversial to provide safe and clean drvg use supplies; research demonstrates that providing harm reduction supplies as such does not increase drvg use, or "enable" drvg use. Instead, research shows PWUD (people who use drugs) will use regardless of having clean supplies. This means they will use dirty or blunted needles and be at an increased risk of HIV, HEP-C, and many other diseases through transmission.
We don't need researchers to tell us this though because we're run by and for PWUD, and people with lived and currently living experience. EVERYONE uses drvgs. Being a harm reduction organization run by and for PWUD means we don't push or force abstinence, treatment, or anything that would take away one's autonomy.
So....COME AS YOU ARE! We meet people WHERE THEY'RE AT! So whether you're at your lowest moment or feeling good, whether you need all the supplies, or wanna come join us and volunteer, we've seen it all and we don't judge, stigmatize, or discriminate....because we've been there! All of our outreach events and drop ins are a stigma-free, judgement free safe environment!
This past year has certainly been one of our most difficult as well and many of us are struggling ourselves too. So we can't be more clear and genuine when we say all this 💚❤️🫂

04/27/2026

901 Harm Reduction has faced so much oppression and gatekeeping in recent months, along with some of our organizers experiencing homelessness themselves. But we don't stop because our common enemy doesn't stop. The drug war doesn't stop destroying lives. It's winning everyday! We're gonna change that within every community! So don't feel afraid to get involved just because you don't think it affects you! EVERYONE USES DR*GS!
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02/14/2026

Every Saturday (11am-1pm) in the downtown LOGIC church parking lot we run a syringe exchange/syringe services program (SSP)! No stigma, no judgement, and especially no misinformation and drug war propaganda! Come as you are. HAPPENING NOW!

02/10/2026

Thank you to everyone that donated supplies, snd funds for our emergency temporary shelter resource during the winter storm! Our unhoused community worked together to get their fellow unhoused friends and comrades each the resources they needed, and even traveled out to bring people back to our motels. We even had an impromptu therapy dog (actually just one team member's very cuddly and over-friendly dog - picture #4)!
901HR provided emergency temporary shelter through ~40 shelter vouchers and motel rooms for ~22 of our most disabled and at-risk unhoused friends and neighbors.
We didn't do it alone though! We had many community partners and organizations contribute! We're thankful for members of , of , and from for helping provide transportation, clothes, food, and other resources! Our community here worked hard to make sure everyone got what they needed as best as they could given the limited access and weather!
Thankfully many Warming Centers opened as well, but they aren't always safe & are always overcrowded! People have lost their IDs, important personal belongings, harm reduction resources, and many items there. One of our folks was stabbed last year. Then when trying to report just 30min later they were met with law enforcement & kicked to the street. Many of our women/femme-presenting folks have experienced sexual assaults and harassment at warming centers. We hope these churches/community centers do better and we continue to still provide HR supplies, but we aren't willing to wait bc we know WE KEEP US SAFE!
Additionally, one of our organizers and team members stayed in a room with our unhoused comrades due to losing their own utilities, and was therefore able to gather folks to provide an impromptu training session on how to best use many of our HR resources - including test strips, and both intranasal/intramuscular naloxone - for how to recognize & compassionately respond to an OD!
Lastly, the best news of all - Our unhoused friend Will secured permanent housing (in their motel room) through this opportunity by signing on to a monthly rate!

01/31/2026

1 week ago, last Friday, 3 of our team members got invited by to be on a panel and speak as lived experience experts on the intersectionality and cycle of being both unhoused and being in the legal system. Kym and King (top) are 2 of our currently unhoused comrades that spoke on the systemic racism and violence they experienced both on the streets and in 201 Poplar/Jail. Paige, (bottom), is one of our organizers and team members and she spoke on her experience being previously unhoused and being targeted constantly by simply for just sleeping in her car in 2024 and how during her previous experiences being unhoused the police and criminal "justice" system chronically made her situation worse instead of helping or offering resources; how ticketing someone who doesn't have the $ for housing ironically kept her living in her car longer. She also spoke on her recent experiences being arrested for drug checking (a common harm reduction tool used to check for contaminants in the street supply to prevent overdoses), then stereotyped as a ju**ie for distributing harm reduction supplies despite having a PhD and being way more qualified than any police or judge to handle substances. We hope to share some pictures and videos soon of the panel and speakers!
After the panel, these comrades worked together with the rest of our unhoused community and to get folks into temporary emergency shelter before the winter snow storm hit. We gave out about 40 shelter vouchers and put some of our regulars and folks most at-risk into motel rooms (about 20 people) for as long as the donation funds would last. Then we worked hard to find our unhoused comrades and PWUD around the medical district, midtown, and downtown that we lost contact with so we could bring them to safety.
If you donated funds to keep our people in emergency housing, you saved lives! Seriously!! We don't even know who all we've lost yet. Our unhoused neighbors can't change out of their wet clothes once they're wet, and walking through this storm and snow is a lot more difficult when people have to take all their belongings with them.

01/24/2026

STOP! You can help us keep our unhoused community alive RIGHT NOW. Read and share!
Everyone and their mother is sharing the Warming center details which is great, but we work directly with our unhoused community in Memphis everyday and we know directly from them that those places are often overcrowded and unsafe. If it saves people's lives today then we are glad it exists. BUT Our unhoused comrades have experienced theft, sexual harassment and one of our regulars got stabbed last year and then wasn't believed after trying to report it just 20mins later and instead got kicked out. While the non-profits and charities with 6 figures worth of funding haven't spent anything on treating homeless people humanely like paying for motels for this emergency (yep, we actually learned not a penny spent from the LARGEST one downtown), we're out here building community helping each other! We're operating on just the $5 to the $50 to the $100 donations we get because this situation is so dire we're begging you guys on social media!
But we know so many of you are just as frustrated as us and have been beaten down day by day by our capitalist distopian hellscape we call a society and the only true help we get in desperate times are from either the people we care about and trust or just the kindness of everyday strangers that we don't know personally but know how to treat humans like humans.

01/23/2026

This winter storm coming up in Memphis encouraged us to reshare these stories as a post. It's expected to be one of the WORST storms we've EVER gotten! To many people that statement might feel like an exaggeration because you've heard things like this but the actual storm turns out to hardly inconvenience you...ya wanna know why? Because in Memphis, winter preparation and weatherized infrastructure is disproportionately funded here; lower/middle-class Black and Brown neighborhoods and marginalized communities are the first to lose power and utilities first but the last to get it back.....for those of you rushing to the grocery store to stock up on necessities, you're experience being stuck inside is often no different than a day off with minor inconveniences...
Then what's it like for those that can't afford to buy in bulk? What's it like without power and water for so long? What's it like living outside?
For the Housed:
- having to choose which of your kids gets to be warm and which will freeze bc of limited resources.
- waking up to bugs in your home bc they need the warmer environment.
- your kids packed into one room like sardines because the heater only works in there.
- rationing canned goods you have to eat straight out the can.
- skin problems, itchiness and worsening infections bc you can't shower or wash clothes.
- getting frostbite bc your winter coats & shoes are too worn out
- constant suffocating anxiety about the future heating bill, wondering if you can shut anything else off without risking hypothermia.
--> then getting the MLGW bill & seeing they raised their prices during that storm & immediately start planning to prevent eviction.
For the Unhoused:
- Waking up soaked from ice & water that flooded your abandoned building.
- Constantly wet from having 1 pair of shoes/clothes
- Counting the seconds until daylight hoping you survive the night.
- having frostbite but wondering if losing a finger is better than risk being horrifically dehumanized by the healthcare system.
This list could be 500x longer - continue the list by sharing your experience and as we all are forced into isolation, remember that you aren't alone & we love you!

12/20/2025

Every week we have our downtown SSP at LOGIC church from 11am-1pm! We will not have a dr*g users' union meeting today. Our meetings will resume in January 2026.

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