1 🚨Attention please: Turns out #xylazine is a kappa opioid. This validates experience from frontline folks and PWUD. Fresh science from collaborators @nanopharmNC @MadiganLBedard BryanRoth Pre-print: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Public health 🧵 below #TwitteRx #harmreduction

THIS. Why I viscerally react to “addict.” Some (most) of us use drugs. (Had coffee today?!) Most use not chaotic/disruptive to day to day life. So many colleagues in treatment & even harm reduction accustomed to seeing those @ most dire; I see ppl doing great - and using!

Collective punishment is not a Jewish value. Genocide is not a Jewish value. Murder is not a Jewish value. Vengeance is not a Jewish value. The Jewish thing to do would be to stop the massacre in Gaza and end the occupation. No killing in my name.

New pub from f/u research in Catalunya: "monitoring whether access on paper translates into accessible care is ever more important... settings where [abortion] is legal and publicly funded must also guarantee practical access." berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

thinking today of henry kissinger’s victims 3 million + vietnamese 2.5 million + cambodians 200,000+ laotians 3 million + bangladeshis 10,000+ indians 10,000+ pakistanis 15,000+ egyptians 3500+ syrians 6500+ cypriots 40,000+ chileans 30,000+ argentinians

The latest The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics is now available, featuring "Health Inequities Among People Who Use Drugs in a Post-Dobbs America: The Case for a Syndemic Analysis," by @veruka2, Bayla Ostrach, & Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD. Please take a look! NC State University Boston University School of Law ASLME cambridge.org/core/journals/…

guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 J Bradley I detest intellectual laziness, conflating dependency or "addiction" as innately resulting in negative outcomes. Suffering resulting from structural causes is mischaracterized as deriving from "addiction" to reinforce personal responsibility narratives and avoid critical thought

After a nearly two year saga, that paper that claimed to find an association between drug-induced homicide laws and fatal overdose has been retracted. Thanks to all the folks who worked to make it happen! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @veruka2 Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD Leo Beletsky

People who are homeless and use drugs in Oregon have lived here for an average 24 of years. 98.5% of people started using illicit drugs prior to the enactment of Measure 110. No one is moving here to use drugs or whatever they spew to not feel responsibility to their neighbors.

Two years later and still relevant.

Title says all. “When people who use drugs can’t differentiate between medical care and cops, it’s a problem.” Compounding risks of Law Enforcement Harassment & Punitive Healthcare Policies Proud to co-author w/2 Harm Reduction mentors & valued colleagues …thandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Racial disparities are merely policy decisions manifesting on the bodies of their intended targets

Folks should have affordable and barrier free access to a safe and regulated supply of whatever drugs they want.

You should be highly suspicious of media that screamed about beheaded babies on the thinnest evidence but quietly ignores verifiable mass graves of handcuffed Palestinians.

Striking text by renowned genocide scholar at Hebrew university. “Yes it is genocide. It is so difficult and painful to admit it but despite all that, and despite all our efforts to think otherwise, after six months of brutal war we can no longer avoid it” thepalestineproject.medium.com/yes-it-is-geno…