031: The Heroine of Heroin

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