
Addiction activism Snohomish county
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I am an activist in Snohomish county promoting harm reduction strategy's. Combating the many negative effects addiction causes including overdose deaths with Naloxone, HIV, hep C and used needles in public with peer delivered needle exchange, recovery by transporting people to resources like suboxone/Methadone/counseling appts. I have been an activist for 4 years and in that time have written Tulalips 911 good Samaritan law and got it passed, got Naloxone in our pharmacy and led a social media campaign to promote it, volunteered at a needle exchange for 6 months and convinced them to expand their access in Tulalip, and connected people to resources. All under a volunteer basis. These are the main places these resources will go. This is very personal to me but needs to be said on July 10th 2010 I lost my Mom to an overdose and I promised my Son when he was older this would be a better place to live. The place we call home according to Sno county health report 2015 has much higher death rates than Washington state. For instance 2011 Sno county experienced 18% of heroin related deaths though only compramising 10% of Washington States. We need this and I am willing to do it. I have been doing it. But I need assistance to make a bigger impact. Here are some links to different projects I have worked on.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/764970776853907?ref=bookmarks
http://www.tulalipnews.com/wp/2014/05/07/the-value-of-saving-a-life-proposed-law-to-grant-temporary-immunity-to-save-lives/
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150109/NEWS01/150109290
http://www.tulalipnews.com/wp/2014/06/17/tulalip-adopts-good-samaritan-law-with-lois-luella-jones-law/
http://www.tulalipnews.com/wp/2015/12/18/life-is-the-best-gift-of-all/
https://m.facebook.com/groups/764970776853907?ref=bookmarks
http://www.tulalipnews.com/wp/2014/05/07/the-value-of-saving-a-life-proposed-law-to-grant-temporary-immunity-to-save-lives/
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150109/NEWS01/150109290
http://www.tulalipnews.com/wp/2014/06/17/tulalip-adopts-good-samaritan-law-with-lois-luella-jones-law/
http://www.tulalipnews.com/wp/2015/12/18/life-is-the-best-gift-of-all/
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Rico Madison Jones
Organizer
Marysville, WA