Nobody Disposable

When the institutions chose fear, a room of strangers chose the truth—and kept people alive. Nobody Disposable is Shaun J Apple's firsthand account of the harm-reduction rooms he helped build and hold, Bluelight and r/trees, where anonymous strangers told the truth around the clock and kept one another alive. It is clear-eyed about drugs, dignity, public health, and policy; it never preaches and never looks away. Nobody is disposable. Not even the stranger. Especially not the stranger. For readers of harm reduction, drug policy, addiction, social justice, and the true story of what online community was once capable of.