Thank you Congresswoman Chellie Pingree 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (& staffer Evan!) for understanding the importance of the #RyanWhite HIV/AIDS Program, a national #PrEP program & #BioPreparednessWorkforce. We appreciate your support. HIV Medicine Association IDSA

Thank you Senator Angus King (& staffer Evan) for understanding the importance of the #RyanWhite HIV/AIDS Program, a national #PrEP program , #BioPreparednessWorkforce, & harm reduction! We appreciate your support. HIV Medicine Association IDSA

Extremely proud this is now out as an official AMERSA statement, where we summarized recent policy changes affecting methadone treatment in the US and opportunities for future change, including moving towards office-based methadone treatment: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

Things are happening… ✨ #HarmReduction #Maine #ProjectDHARMA

State advocacy training by the amazing Maine Recovery Advocacy Project team : Courtney Gary-Allen & Tess Parks . Open to public - please register!

Sharing a little morsel of a paper that I am excited abt bc it might represent a new way to measure success in SUD research one day. Hair testing to measure past month substance use and eventually🤞🏽quantify use (e.g., measure REDUCED use not just abstinence)

Please consider submitting something for this harm reduction based Special Collection & feel free to share w/ colleagues! Raagini Jawa MD, MPH, FASAM Smoke Works

Our article on HIV ART Switch was e-published today! Huge thanks to co-author Daniel Solomon & editor Paul Sax for the opportunity 📚🎉Excited to contribute to the field! It was a labor of love & I hope it is a helpful and practical guide! authors.elsevier.com/a/1jFX73AjoXi7…

Today!!! 👇🏽

The Project DHARMA team has been hard at work - FTIR installation MEaccesspoints (wall art c/o SSP client) & delivering harm reduction supplies in southern ME ✨ MaineHealth Maine Medical Center MaineHealth

Thankful that at least one New England legislature got it right and passed OPC legislation 🖤

FTIR installation + world famous pie= excellent Saturday afternoon in Machias. ProjectDHARMA

So excited to get our new FTIR machine up and running to bring drug checking to rural Maine with #ProjectDHARMA

NEW MANUSCRIPT DROPPED! So, PICC use in patients who inject drugs can be a polarizing subject, but what are we really afraid of? Me and Shashi Kapadia surveyed medicine trainees about their concerns, perceived barriers, and facilitating effects of MOUD. academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a…

🚨New pub alert 🚨 in Journal of Addiction Medicine Drug associated wounds, including those from #xylazine, can heal with early + regular wound care- SO, we wondered… 🤔how prepared are US addiction professionals to provide wound care? Let's break it down: journals.lww.com/journaladdicti…

Thank you so much to The Curbsiders The Curbsiders Addiction Med Podcast Carolyn Chan MD Zina Huxley-Reicher, MD for having Tehya *support harm reduction* Johnson, NP and I on to talk about #xylazine, #wounds, & #harmreduction!

Great day with friends and colleagues up in Maine presenting about harm reduction workforce development and SafeSpot Tj Thompson Kinna Thakarar (she/her)

New #LetsTalkID podcast out now! Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, FIDSA discusses the importance of advocacy, including how IDSA and HIV Medicine Association members can get involved, with chair and vice chair of IDSA’s advocacy captain subcommittee, Rachel Ann Bender Ignacio, MD MPH and Kinna Thakarar (she/her). Transcript: idsociety.org/multimedia/pod…

One year ago, This American Life released “The Call” — an hour-long piece about the lives of Jessica Blanchard MSN/Ed, RN Kimber and I, masterfully told by Mary E. Harris 🌴 and heard by millions of people. Life changing moment, life changing story. Listen if you haven’t: thisamericanlife.org/809/the-call

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