PT420 – Rachel Clark – DanceSafe: Drug Testing, Fentanyl Myths, and the Importance of Consent
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Alexa interviews Rachel Clark: Education Manager for DanceSafe, a public health nonprofit specializing in serving people who use drugs and their communities.
As we move into the prime festival season, more people are going to be doing drugs, and the importance of harm reduction and drug testing becomes even more central to the experience. She discusses the complications of drug testing and how it's more of an act of ruling substances out rather than determining purity; the fentanyl problem and its surrounding myths; how to identify and treat an overdose (and what not to do); Philadelphia's struggles with Xylazine highlighting the problem with regional cross contamination; and DanceSafe's "We Love Consent" and "Healing is Power" campaigns, which aim to open up the dialogue of true harm reduction and safe spaces outside of the substance alone.
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| 1:57.4 | As we move further into the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, our team is feeling |
| 2:01.9 | called to share safety tips and harm reduction resources for your festival excursions and beyond. |
| 2:07.9 | To kick off this series, I had an amazing conversation with Rachel Clark, the education |
| 2:12.2 | manager at Dance Safe. DanSafe is a nonprofit that has been around since 1998, and they are most well known for their drug testing kits and services. |
| 2:20.3 | However, they also educate on pretty much everything relating to concerts and music festival safety. |
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