About Us
Our Story
The Pennsylvania Harm Reduction Network (PAHRN) began as a collaboration between advocates who recognized the urgent need to build a state-wide grassroots organization dedicated to the promotion of harm reduction in Pennsylvania following the closure of the Pennsylvania Harm Reduction Coalition in 2021. We’ve been building relationships and are joining together with people who use drugs and the people who love and care for them, medical and public health professionals, advocates and other community leaders from across PA to save lives and end the harms caused by unjust drug policies.
Our Mission and Vision
Mission
The PA Harm Reduction Network serves to organize and build power across Pennsylvania to end overdose deaths, drug-use related incarceration, the spread of HIV and HCV, and the many other harms inflicted upon people who use drugs in Pennsylvania and those who love them. PAHRN works for change through collaboration, advocacy, public education, information sharing, and supporting access to harm reduction resources & supplies.
Vision
The PA Harm Reduction Network envisions a future where Pennsylvanians who use drugs are treated with dignity and compassion; and our drug policies are built on principles of equity, self-determination, bodily autonomy, and public health.