The longtime HIPS syringe exchange specialist died last week, leaving behind a powerful legacy of saving lives and changing drug policy.

While D.C. offers direct monetary assistance for burials of murder victims, Prince George’s County requires families to pay out of pocket and then apply for a reimbursement.

“The real hurt is that she was taken in such a horrible and tragic way – shot multiple times and left on a road there.”

“The reason I want to do it in a nutshell is I do not think the criminalization of sex workers has worked for the District of Columbia,” says At-large Councilmember David Grosso.

Overdoses claimed more than lives in D.C. since 2014. This group says another 158 will die in 2017.

In total, there’s been a decrease in the number of prostitution-related arrests overall year-to-date than in 2016.

Naloxone can now be obtained at HIPS and Family and Medical Counseling Services.

Local nonprofit HIPS is working to get the local transgender community to participate in the national survey—the largest of its kind.

Local musicians remix each other to benefit local organization HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive).

And zero arrests.