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

Official Selection, Friday Harbor Film Festival 2025Official Selection, Tacoma Film Festival 2025Audience Award, Best Documentary, Tacoma Film Festival 2025Winner, Pacific Northwest Filmmaker Award, Tri-Cities International Film Festival 2025

People in the film

Sue Purchase

Executive Director, Harm Reduction Sisters

Participant video

Meet Sue Purchase

Founder of the first needle exchange in Minneapolis and Harm Reduction Sisters in Duluth, MN.

2:15

Biography

Sue Purchase believes that by making drug use safer, we can mitigate overdose, death by overdose, and the spread of AIDS, Hep C, and other blood-borne illnesses. She is passionate about addressing the disparities in services for people who use drugs, especially women and people of color. Sue has twenty-plus years of experience in harm reduction.

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