In a TIME article titled “A Pandemic Upon an Epidemic.’ Syringe Services Struggle to Provide Care to Those Battling Drug Addiction Amid COVID-19”, Our Director Executive, Braunz E. Courtney, was quoted:
Participants were complaining that they weren’t able to shower or clean up. “They were like—I just need a place to wash my hands and I was like woah, it’s on that level,” he says.
So HEPPAC bought five portable hand-washing stations.
https://time.com/5861286/syringe-service-programs-coronavirus-opioids-crisis/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief&utm_content=20200820&et_rid=103264652