Queen City Harm Reduction

05/21/2026

📢NALOXONE KIT MAKING EVENT!! 📢

Help Queen City Harm Reduction assemble life-saving naloxone kits, connect with community allies, and support local harm reduction efforts in a fun, meaningful way.

Details follow below! Hope to see you there 😊

04/20/2026

Join us for "Behind Closed Doors", an interactive workshop designed to empower parents with the tools to navigate teen substance use and prevention. Explore a mock-bedroom exhibit to identify modern hiding spots and "red flags," along with a panel discussion featuring a medical professional, SRO, and parent/youth advocate or specialist.

This evening offers a supportive space to connect with community partners and gain practical strategies for youth wellness.

Free childcare is provided on-site for ages 5 and up.

04/15/2026

WANTED: High school leaders ready to make an impact 👀

If you’re a sophomore, junior, or senior, this is your chance to build leadership skills, gain experience, and give back.

💥 Apply now
📩 DM us or visit our website to learn more

03/25/2026

The more you know 🌈💫

“A pervasive misconception about naloxone is that it affects the opioid molecules themselves. It doesn’t. It affects the receptors they bind to in the human brain and body, which are the same receptors regardless of the opioid’s potency. It is unequivocally false to say that naloxone doesn’t work well on higher-potency opioids. Using too much can in some cases be as dangerous as not using enough.”

A minor media frenzy has been forming around cychlorphine, a novel synthetic opioid described as the “next killer drug” taking ...

03/09/2026

Justice Catalyst Law and want to hear from you if you have experienced discrimination based on Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) in treatment or recovery housing.

No experience is too big or too small, and these folks are incredible. Please reach out to them with anything you’ve experienced in this regard!

02/26/2026

Wrapping up Black History Month by highlighting an incredible group!

In 1967, a group of African American men and women had had enough of the health disparities along the lines of race and class in Pittsburgh and became the first community-based emergency medical service with trained paramedics in the US.

They were also harm reduction heroes in their own right- Freedom House was the first group to make use of naloxone at a community level, where before it was only used to revive patients from surgery and never available in the event of an opioid overdose.

Many people still refused care from Freedom House due to their race. Many others sought to shut them down for serving predominantly Black communities, which ultimately came to fruition in 1975.

In their short time in operation, Freedom House made an enormous impact on healthcare policy and revolutionized community-based care.

11/18/2025

Hey friends! We go together with our buddies over at and decided to host a kit making event with them!! December 3rd, from 4 to 8, we will be packing life saving naloxone kits. Come out, grab some pizza and help out your favorite syringe service program 🍕❤️

11/06/2025

It’s been going on a good while, but we wanted to say it louder for the folks in the back 🗣️🗣️🗣️

09/01/2025

Overdose is such a complicated story to track, but our hope is that complacency driven by “success” does not change the way we radically seek to support overdose prevention.

Thinking of everyone affected as we recover from a big Overdose Awareness Day.

In solidarity,
QCHR

08/14/2025

THIS WEEKEND!!!! Saturday and Sunday - Queen City Harm Reduction will have a table at Pride Charlotte for the first time! We will be handing out free naloxone, test strips, CPR shields, and general information about who we are AND will have some pretty cool merch!! If you’re out and about come check us out! 🌈🏳️‍🌈