Paul Farmer often railed against the desiccated neoliberal logic of “cost-benefit analysis” and its assumption that the value of care, life, and love or the cost of abuse, sickness, death, and loss could be rendered as a number for philanthropists’ evaluation metrics. I miss him.

Is duckweed the solution to global food insecurity? Doubles biomass every 2 days. Complete protein. Source of B12. 98% percent of water used to grow can be recycled. Relatively-neutral flavor.

For anyone interested: I now live 3/4 my life in Jersey City and 1/4 my life in Boston. Still working for Boston Public Health Commission but in a capacity akin to consultant.

Today marks a new chapter in holding JUUL accountable for their predatory and wrongful targeting of young people. The settlement announced today will deliver $41 million to Massachusetts - and a portion of that will go directly to funding vaping addiction services.

Our ED, Sam Rivera made this year’s 2023 #Time100, an annual list from TIME recognizing the impact & achievements of the 100 most influential people in the world. "This honor represents the growing recognition that harm reduction works." Read more: bit.ly/409XskS

Spotted at #ASAM2023 !!! Apparently newly commercially available

Many people know that my story ends with Stanford and Boston University, but few know how my story begins. Well, this is it. Returning to the Clark County Detention Center this past week was very surreal. I spent 20 months in this jail awaiting trial and then sentencing. 🧵🪡

The Connector does amazing work supporting women-centered and transgender individuals. The program is an essential part of Boston's harm reduction fabric. Local folks, please consider volunteering to help assemble kits!

Bless the plastic brain

Increasing access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is one of our most effective tools for preventing overdose deaths. Our new paper in Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Tx (JSAT) studied Medicaid expansion’s impact on MOUD treatment plans for housed + unhoused patients: authors.elsevier.com/c/1hG8-AUkM2XP…

Thrilled to share with y'all that I'm hiring 3 new full-time folks to join our research team here at Mass General Hospital / Harvard Med!🥳 Please share widely with your talented friends & colleagues! ✨ Job postings in the thread below.

Also cooking skills are valuable in sector where extra hands are needed to cook for food insecure folks during holidays, etc

sometimes, you return the fish

My letter was published in today’s The Boston Globe. Carine Hajjar’s article argues progressive policies are to blame for Mass & Cass. Blaming harm reduction for M&C is like blaming an Emergency Room for gun violence. Harm reduction is a response to a failure, not the failure.