Danielle Russell is a third-year PhD student at Arizona State University, and a co-investigator on a current study examining access to methadone during COVID-19.
She herself began taking methadone around 2006. As a former drug user, she’s a member of Urban Survivors Union (USU), advocating for the rights of people who use drugs and for methadone clinic reform.
And she’s the board chair of Sonoran Prevention Works—an organization that works to improve the lives of Arizonans who use drugs through street-based outreach, organizational capacity-building and statewide advocacy.
When I learned that Russell is also a former smoker who switched to vaping, I wanted to ask her more. Her experiences equip her to place this form of harm reduction in a wider context—vaping is clearly analogous to methadone—and to recognize crackdowns on vapes for what they are.
Helen Redmond – Filter – 2022-04-28.
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