The biden administration has been handing out crackpipes. This is done to prevent people from using broken or contaminated drug paraphernalia. The right wing tabloid, the washington free beacon, got hold of i think they posted it on a line. A 30 million dollars in grant funding that the department of health and human services had set aside for harm reduction. We are joined by zacks eagl, journalism fellow at northeastern universities, health injustice action lab and writer for the substack substance zac. You can follow the show on twitter, citation spot, facebook, citations ed and become a supporter of our work through patrion dot com, slash citations needed podcast.
In this News Brief, we are joined by friend of the show Zachary A. Siegel to discuss the extremely effective, extremely racist rightwing outrage over drug kits and how the Democrats refusing to defend the policy on its merits sets back harm reduction efforts.