Sarah Laurel turned her traumatic experiences from substance use disorder and justice involvement into a powerful movement for harm reduction and the empowerment of people experiencing harms from substance use and homelessness.

She co-founded Savage Sisters Recovery initially as a residential treatment facility, and along the way went through her own process of finding harm reduction and unlearning the shame and stigma that had become so ingrained within society and in recovery spaces.

Through steady organic growth, she turned the non-profit into a large scale organization providing trauma-informed recovery housing, mobile harm reduction outreach, drug testing, wound care, and nationwide trainings. Operating in her hometown of Philadelphia, she and her team are operating in the region hardest hit by the increasingly dangerous drug supply, and leading the way through radial empathy and compassion.

Check out Savage Sisters at: https://savagesisters.org/

Find Savage Sisters on social media at:

https://www.tiktok.com/@savagesistersnonprofit

https://www.youtube.com/@savagesisters9069

Brandi Mac, NP is a person who dropped out of high school and ended up becoming an ICU nurse practitioner.

She joins McCauley Sexton and Taylor Nichols, MD on the Recovery Reform podcast to talk about her journey to love, acceptance, and harm reduction as the daughter of someone with substance use disorder and who has documented her daughter's journey through active use, treatment trauma, and into remission online along with her own growth and understanding.

You can find her on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram as @the_original_brandi_mac

You can find her website at https://www.brandimac.com/about

You can contact her at Brandimac.creator@gmail.com

Tara Grace (Burn the Stigma Tara) became a harm reductionist out of necessity after seeing how the limitations of a 12 step recovery model was harming her and her community. She is a vocal advocate for harm reduction and recovering out loud, brining her story and harm reduction education to the community.

You can find Tara at @BurnTheStigma across social media.