Harm Reduction Project/Drop In Center

Harm Reduction Project/Drop In Center

Location: Denver
Number of Visioners: 12

About This Group:

The Drop-In Center's mission is to educate, empower, and advocate for the health and dignity of Metro-Denver's injection drug users and affected partners in accordance with harm reduction principles.

First Question: What did you see during the Guided Imagery? Answers:

Everyone created equal
No discrimination
No traffic
Everyone on bikes
No homeless
Everyone can get health care
Everyone cares
Everyone gets along; happy, sharing things
People mind their own business; respect
Everyone has their lives, they live it.  Let others live their lives
Don’t make things harder on each other
Ideally people would love
Murder, death, stealing (currently) is based on fear
Opening up more, being better people
Peaceful, Quiet
Lack of need
Everyone has what they want
People are fortunate
Everyone has an education
School is free
Free tuition
When you to the hospital and tell them you’re an addict, they do something about your pain instead of making you go through it
Pain free community (medically pain free)
Community with more positive emotions
Stores if you lacked money, you could work to pay off debts
Small town community
Soci9alized medicine if you need it, you got it
Socialized stores
Justice ain’t blind
World without money, without greed
World with no problems
Children raised with love
No child left behind
Don’t shake the baby
No racism
Lots and lots of music, everywhere, everyone singings songs together
Lots of stature
Stuff calming to the eyes
Artwork on sidewalks
Buildings painted with calming relaxing colors
No black, white, gray
Peace colors
Not shelters, because nobody needs one.  Everyone has shelter

Instead of no child left behind, no person left behind
There is religion, but it’s not stuffed down your throat
No branches in religion
No wars, military or police
Citizens police, self governing
Islands with prisons

Second Question: Question 2: How would you change your relationship with the Drop in Center? Answers:

We wouldn’t need them in our ideal community
Drop In Center would be open on a Saturday or Sunday or every other weekend
I would volunteer there
Government would give money without interference
More money
More one on one
Therapy
Would do breathalyzers
If you get caught stealing, you get kicked out for life
We’re in this together; stealing from homeless is the lowest of low
If someone steals something, sit them down and talk to them
Kicking them out lets them off the hook
Sit them down in front of a panel
More education about HIV, Hep C
More education on diseases period, even STDs
This type of education needs to take place in schools
Addiction is a disease
All of this should be taught at a younger age, instead of being a fear factor
Education is ongoing
Life skills class, mandatory in school
Needled exchange would be legal
If there was a needle exchange in 2005, I wouldn’t have HIV, nor would 6 other people I know
Needle exchange would make it mandatory to go to group
Priority on diseases instead of charity
Drugs should be legal, there would be less crime
Population control
Suicide should be legal

Third Question: Question 3: How would you get Food? Answers:

Would like to restart gardening at Drop in Center
All major restaurants have food line.  Left over food goes to people that need it
Community garden
Less waste from restaurants
Mandatory recycling of food and everything

Fourth Question: Question 4: How do you see yourself involved in the change you want to see? Answers:

Lead by example Pickup trash along the highway
Give out soup in soup kitchens
More help, more volunteers
Everyone in their own apartment, doing well
We don’t have high goals; we want to be left along
Be somewhere warm instead of in a tent
Ghandi had I right
First you bee the change
Going to volunteer for soup kitchens.  No one wants to sit out there for hours
Go back to old west where everyone owns a gun.  People get more respect
Start somewhere small
Drop in Center would educate about Hep C and Aids
Government should have info about what drugs do to you long term
Less government control of everything.  Needle exchanged we want it, we know it’s good.  Why not change it to help people
Needle exchange says “It’s okay to do drugs”.  I know what I’m doing to myself when I’m using
Sending postcards to Senators/Congress.  Government looks at the negative.  They give finds for possession of needles that cost $999
Underground supplies,  No one getting hurt

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