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Ariel Boone
Reporter
Ariel Boone is a print and radio journalist in Oakland, California and reports primarily on housing rights and homelessness. Ariel was a 2021 Center for Health Journalism 2021 California Fellow whose project reported on opioid use, overdoses, and harm reduction in Alameda County during the Covid-19 pandemic. From 2015 to 2019, Ariel worked in New York City covering global grassroots movements as digital editor for Democracy Now!, the daily independent TV and radio news show hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Afterward, Ariel found a home at KPFA Radio as a news reporter, producer, and sometimes co-host of the morning public affairs show UpFront. Ariel's work has aired on KPFA Radio and Democracy Now! and appeared in Capital and Main, The Indypendent, Law @ The Margins, and Street Spirit News, and Ariel has done research for projects for The New York Times and ProPublica.
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What I learned during the process of reporting my series on the opioid crisis in unhoused communities in the East Bay was just how many lives are saved each day by the people at the center of the crisis — like Thad.
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Unhoused people who use drugs are reversing overdoses and saving hundreds of lives each year.
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Unhoused people are reversing overdoses and saving lives on the street, but these efforts aren’t showing up in official counts.
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As the pandemic intensifies the overdose crisis in Alameda County and elsewhere, harm reduction advocates step in where government lags.
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A new project tracks the deadly trajectory of the opioid crisis during the pandemic in the Bay Area.