Tracey Helton Mitchell is an American public health worker and author.
[1][2] In her teens and twenties she struggled with opioid use disorder and appeared in the documentary Black Tar Heroin.
[1] Mitchell also received media attention in 2017 for mailing naloxone to drug users she connected with through web forums.
Mitchell viewed it as an act of civil disobedience in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic.
[2][3] Mitchell is on the board of NEXT Harm Reduction, which does similar work, inspired by her example.