James Beshears says the Fred HamptonFree Store in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward — along with the harm reduction group that distributes sterile syringes there — has kept him alive amid his drug use. He wants to stop but ... .
Volunteers from Freestanding Communities, a community health outreach organization, take a mattress that had been donated to the Fred HamptonFree Store and deliver it to an abandoned naval base in New Orleans, where a man with a leg injury ... .
The Fred HamptonFree Store operates in an abandoned Family Dollar store in one of New Orleans’ poorest neighborhoods, the Lower 9th Ward. The building, covered in graffiti, can be intimidating at first. But inside, it is warm and welcoming, ... .
Dan Bingler, who runs the Fred HamptonFree Store, calls it “a radical community center.” The store, in an abandoned Family Dollar in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, offers visitors free items, all donated by people and groups in the ... .
NEW ORLEANS — From the outside, the abandoned Family Dollar store in the Lower 9th Ward looks intimidating. It’s covered in graffiti, with aluminum cans and trash dotting the parking lot. It sits on a street with other empty lots ... .
NEW ORLEANS — Elyse Stevens had a reputation for taking on complex medical cases. People who’d been battling addiction for decades. Chronic-pain patients on high doses of opioids. Sex workers and people living on the street ....
The experiences of one doctor in Louisiana reveal the tensions around trying to get people to engage in addiction treatment, even if they're not ready to stop using drugs. (Image credit. Aneri Pattani) ....
Officials in Irvington, New Jersey, had an idea. To raise awareness about the dangers of opioid use and addiction, the township could host concerts with popular R&B artists like Q Parker and Musiq Soulchild. It spent more than $600,000 in ... .
Officials in Irvington, New Jersey, had an idea. To raise awareness about the dangers of opioid use and addiction, the township could host concerts with popular R&B artists like Q Parker and Musiq Soulchild... It bought cotton candy and popcorn machines.