Wilkes Harm Reduction Collective

05/27/2026

🚨 WE’RE HIRING 🚨

Recovery Revolution is seeking a compassionate, mission-driven professional to join our team as our new Public Health & Harm Reduction Outreach Manager.

This position plays a hands-on role in:
✔️ Mobile outreach
✔️ Harm reduction services
✔️ Public health initiatives
✔️ HIV/Hepatitis C testing
✔️ Overdose prevention
✔️ Community engagement
✔️ Rural outreach through our Mobile Recovery Health Unit

We’re looking for someone who believes in meeting people where they are and helping expand access to life-saving care and support throughout our communities.

Learn More: https://recoveryrevolutionnc.com/program-manager-public-health-outreach/

Apply online today:
👉 https://recoveryrevolutionnc.com/careers/

Join the Recovery Revolution movement and help us restore hope, repair lives, and rebuild community. 💙

05/07/2026

04/01/2026

. Nabarun Dasgupta: “What will happen when the US puts xylazine in Schedule 3? Pennsylvania is the test case and Alex Krotulski at The Center for Forensic Science Research & Education brought the receipts.

As I told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce yesterday, the predictable consequence of putting xylazine in Schedule 3 is more medetomidine.

Webcast (starting at approx 30 mins):
https://lnkd.in/ei5Bq2nr

Medetomidine is a nightmare because quitting cold turkey causes a type of heart attack that puts people in the ICU. How bad will it get?

Michael Lynch brings you inside a hospital that has been inundated: https://lnkd.in/ee7MRc9f

My full testimony here: https://lnkd.in/epwj2Ksy

Unintended consequences are not unitended if they are predictable, and you do it anyways.”

03/12/2026

Check out our new blog post: Recovery Rooted in Hope

https://recoveryrevolutionnc.com/the-many-faces-of-recovery-a-holistic-approach/

When we broaden our understanding of recovery, we do not diminish anyone’s journey. Instead, we make room for more people to find their way forward.

Because recovery does not belong to one program, one organization, one philosophy, or one definition.

Recovery belongs to the people who live it.

03/09/2026

Were You Denied Entry to or Kicked Out of Housing or a Treatment Program in North Carolina Because You’re Taking Methadone, Bupe, or Subs?

⮚ Have you taken methadone, bupe, or subs?

⮚ Were you denied entry or kicked out of a residential treatment facility or other treatment program in North Carolina because you were taking these medications?

⮚ Were you told to “detox” or “taper off” your medications?

📞 WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! 📞

PLEASE CALL OR TEXT US AT (984) 259-3682

Justice Catalyst Law is a non-profit organization that is trying to ensure that people with addiction get the healthcare and services they need.

02/13/2026

Around here, love looks like checking on your people.
It looks like safer use supplies.
It looks like showing up again and again.

We might joke a little, but the message is real — your life matters to us.

Happy Valentine’s Day from your Wilkes Harm Reduction Collective❤️

02/13/2026

This Valentine’s Day, we celebrate a love that saves lives.

Harm reduction is love in action.
And everyone deserves to make it home.

02/03/2026

Updated ALFA testing schedule due to inclement weather 💗

01/30/2026

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-dollar-invested-reduction-benefits.html

“…deliver more than $250 million in health and societal benefits between 2026 and 2030 and avert dozens of overdose deaths, according to new analysis led by Burnet Institute.

The research found that the current package of harm reduction services delivers a benefit–cost ratio of around 10:1, meaning every dollar invested returns more than $10 in benefits. The research is published in the journal Addiction.”

Maintaining harm reduction services in the Australian Capital Territory could deliver more than $250 million in health and societal benefits between 2026 and 2030 and avert dozens of overdose deaths, according to new analysis led by Burnet Institute.