Great article about the power of food as a tool for harm reduction. Providing nutritious and resource-appropriate (canned food for folks without kitchens isn’t helpful) food can empower people who use drugs and offset some of their negative health effects. “As a person who is living with hepatitis C, I noticed a huge change in the inflammation and how I felt [when I prepared healthy food],” Tsinas told Filter. “But also, in my viral metabolic panel, my counts were actually decreased because I was inadvertently eating a lot of foods that were really good for your liver.”
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