SOAR WV is a Charleston, WV based community group that promotes the health, dignity, and voices of individuals who are impacted by drug use. Together, we’ve distributed over 20,000 naloxone doses since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
We established in 2018 in response to the shut down of the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department’s harm reduction program. We’ve worked since then to fill the crater losing this program has left in our community.
Recent News
- SOAR’s Unstuck Chuck Syringe Pick-Up Pilot & Disposal Efforts
In late 2021, SOAR was successful in securing grant funding from the Mel Wolfe Foundation for a new pilot project, Unstuck Chuck. Unstuck Chuck is SOAR’s syringe pick-up and disposal crew that is implemented each Read more… - White House will push ‘harm reduction’ in latest fight against drug overdoses
While the country is still wrestling with the COVID-19 pandemic, deaths from drug overdoses have been spiking — and are expected to top 100,000 for 2021. On Thursday, the White House released its plan to Read more… - Harm Reduction: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver discusses why overdoses in the U.S. have been on the rise and what we should, and shouldn’t, be doing to prevent them.