GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — For more than two decades, staff at the Grand Rapids Red Project have been working to reduce the negative consequences associated with illegal drug use.
“We like to center our program in really based in human rights,” said the organization’s executive director, Stephen Alsum.
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Two years ago, the Red Project became the first in the state to offer real-time drug checking with a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, or an FTIR machine.
People bring in a small sample of whatever illicit substance they’re using, and the machine shows what’s in it…