Tracey Helton (/u/traceyh415) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss her depression growing up, how she became addicted to heroin, life as a homeless heroin addict, being the subject of the HBO documentary ‘Black Tar Heroin’, how she got clean, her involvement in harm reduction, how she got involved in r/opiates on reddit, Naloxone, and how she saved the lives of over 120 users by sending naloxone to those with no access.
This episode features Tracey Helton /u/traceyh415, Jamey Jasta, Max Gunawan (founder of Lumio), /u/opiathrowaway, John Doe and Yev Pusin (/u/yevp).
You can donate to Tracey via Paypal at traceyh415@gmail.com.
This episode is sponsored by Squarespace and Backblaze.
Relevant Links:
r/opiates Tracey’s Blog Pre-order Tracey’s Book ‘The Big Fix’ Watch Black Tar Heroin on Youtube Yev’s Blog Article on the Blackblaze Incident Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the Heroin epidemic in the United States Tracey's Original AMA on r/opiates
