As opioid epidemic spreads, a NC church opens its doors to a syringe exchange

The Twin City Harm Reduction Collective distributes naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug, seen in the basement of Green Street United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., on June 6, 2019. RNS photo by Yonat Shimron

The Rev. Sarah Howell-Miller, a United Methodist minister, once opposed needle exchange programs for opioid addicts — a stance shared by  legislators in some three dozen states. The idea of giving addicts the means to shoot up was, in Howell-Miller’s word, “garbage.”

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