OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity team and several OSI grantees attended the Drug Policy Alliance Reform Conference in St. Louis last week. At the conference, OSI hosted a Maryland Meet-Up organized by Zach Kosinski of with the Maryland Harm Reduction Action Network and Sam Kerr (pictured) and Tricia Christensen of OSI grantees Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition.
During the conference, Kerr participated in a panel called “The Overdose Crisis in Our Backyards: Can We Stop Calling it a White Overdose Crisis?” and Rajani Gudlavalleti, a former OSI-Baltimore staff member now with BHRC who recently joined public officials at an event to promote Overdose Prevention Sites, participated in a panel on “Mutual Aid Among Queer and Trans People Who Use Drugs: Creating a Framework for Liberation.”
