Synn SternSynn Stern, RN, MPH, has worked in the field of public health, harm reduction and addiction for more than 30 years. Coming out of the New York City therapeutic community world, she then worked at the psychiatric day program at the Franklin en's Shelter in the Bronx at the time when Crack was King during the Reagan/Bush homeless crisis. During the AIDS crisis she handed out condoms and bleach kits in Hunt's Point, then helped start the first legal Bronx needle exchange program in the Tremont section. She then moved to Rotterdam, Netherlands where she worked with some of the leading people in the field in a progressive nation that practiced drug normalization.
After returning to the states, she received additional medical degrees, and began working at The CORNER Project, which recently became the first legal Safe Injection Site in New York. Read More Read Less