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Imani Woods founds the National Harm Reduction Coalition.

1995

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Imani Woods travels the country building Black harm reduction strategies through this coalition. She is also hired by Group Health Cooperative to set up a needle exchange in downtown Seattle that becomes Street Outreach Services (SOS).

In Harm Reduction Communication in the fall of 1995, she writes: "There is no way you can convince me that if the majority of those incarcerated were white, the US wouldn't quick, fast, and in a hurry find alternatives to its shamefully antiquated practices of treating users like adversaries."