From a public health act of as standpoint, today was a kind of a bad day, to put it lightly. I think everybody in the public health and harmiduction world are just really bummed about how this played out. It's like they're twisting and contorting themselves to argue out of doing something that is basically good and helpful and won't bother anybody. There's just something so like, a country can't do public health if it hates the public, it hates the black public. And it just seems like we've just lost imbasically. Like that sets it back like a gene.
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.