I got an offer from a work acquaintance yesterday...she asked if I'd like to join up as a volunteer doing harm reduction stuff in the next county over from ours (it's an extremely poor place with among the highest overdose death rates in the country). The vols go out and about with folks from public health, helping to hand out needles and narcan, and answering questions for people about treatment options and other harm reduction stuff.
This is definitely something I'd like to do. But with my own recovery feeling iffy these days I can't decided if it would help or hurt.
On the one hand, I'd be handling armfuls of needles etc and meeting heroin addicts, which could very well be triggering for me. On the other hand, I find that if I'm involved in activities I care about, my own interest in heroin tends to go down.
Any thoughts?