Print Harm reduction has multiple sides according to Christine Rodriguez, the executive director of Higher Ground Harm Reduction. On the surface, there are “practical strategies and interventions that [are] put in place for folks to stay safer when they’re using drugs or trading sex.” She further specified that they’re “interventions that were created by people who use drugs and people who trade sex and were later researched and found to be effective.” But for Rodriguez, and other harm reduction practitioners, like Rafael Torruella, the executive director of Intercambios Puerto Rico, it’s also a social movement. Torrulella shared his belief that “harm reduction is not just service delivery, it’s not just a set of techniques, it’s not just a viewpoint of how to engage problematic drug use or sex or whatever have you it’s also part of a social movement that looks for a more just world for drug users, sex workers — that population. It has a social critique saying, no [expletive], this is not right.”