Never Perfect. Never Over. An Unauthorized History of Harm Reduction.

Biography

Heather Edney is a principal and harm-reduction consultant at OPEN reSOURCE Consulting, with over 30 years of experience developing services that prevent opioid overdose, HIV, and viral hepatitis. She was executive director of the fourth authorized syringe exchange program in the U.S. and is a founding member of both the National Harm Reduction Coalition and the North American Syringe Network. Heather has served on federal overdose prevention working groups and now provides training, technical assistance, and open-source resources for syringe service programs nationwide.