In 2008, the BPHC banned the sale of "blunt wraps," tobacco-leaf papers that are used to make marijuana cigarettes, in Boston.

[5] Access, Harm Reduction, Overdose Prevention and Education, commonly referred to as AHOPE Boston or AHOPE Needle Exchange, and formerly called Addicts Health Opportunity Prevention Education, is a needle exchange run by the Boston Public Health Commission.

[7] AHOPE's programming initially operated out of an outreach van that distributed sterile syringes to people who use drugs around Boston.

"[10] In 2020, despite the risks of transmission at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, AHOPE continued to provide services to drug users, out of fear that stopping them would cause a major outbreak of HIV.

[20] Access, Harm Reduction, Overdose Prevention and Education assisted Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) in their creation of a medical observation and stabilization space for intoxicated patients.

[21] Outreach workers from AHOPE work with doctors from BHCHP on the outreach Care Zone van, funded by the Kraft Center for Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, to provide patients with food, wound care, physical examinations, and opioid agonist therapy.

"[25] In 2018, the Boston Municipal Research Bureau honored Leroy Ivey, AHOPE's outreach coordinator, with a Henry L. Shattuck Public Service Award because Ivey "led the way in helping Boston confront the unprecedented opioid epidemic presenting itself locally.