The new StepIn program offers harm prevention resources for recreational drug users in the LGBTQ community.
Ed Urgiles helps provide people in the Midway District with Narcan and other harm reduction resources. He is the program leader for Step In, a new outreach program for the LGBTQ community, San Diego, Calif., July 1, 2022.parade and festival in more than two years will be held.
“We keep our personal opinions away from the work,” Urgiles said, “And just help people stay alive regardless of what state of mind or situation they’re in.”, the residential and outpatient recovery organization founded in 1976 in response to the unique challenges LGBTQ people face with addiction. There is a current health crisis because law enforcement officials report that almost every street drug including cocaine and methamphetamine is now laced with the powerful substance.“There are a lot of gay men who get addicted to methamphetamine that is mixed with fentanyl," said Highfill."I don’t think our community has a very broad awareness of the harm that this particular substance has done to us.
Baisa has since moved away to a small town in Arkansas where he is enjoying a much simpler clean and sober life. Robert Tice is one of the club’s board members who is also a drug counselor in a South Bay hospital emergency room.
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