With the $55B influx in opioid settlement funding to states & counties, Professors justinberk & Brandon Marshall with Dennis Bailer of Project Weber/RENEW offer advice in STAT for investing the funds based on lessons learned in Rhode Island. People, Place & Health Collective (PPHC) statnews.com/2024/10/23/opi…

Excellent news!

With AP having now called the results of the failed ballot measure in CA, we must reckon with the realities of how this happened. While language on ballot measures is written to be intentionally confusing, there’s a lack of education surrounding prison slavery as well 🧵

New data on medical student debt from the AAMC: Average educational debt is ⬆️ to $205,000 23% of graduates owe >$300,000 …but 29% of students now graduate with no educational debt at all.

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Review Article by Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD, justinberk, MD, MPH, and Brie A. Williams, MD: Carceral Health Care nej.md/3XmIhGG #PublicHealth

Happy birthday Dad. There is a lot this year that I wish I could have shared with you. You would have loved meeting the twins. Even though you are gone, we will always try to keep your presence alive. Thank you for the years you gave us.

Can cycles of incarceration be broken? How one RI organization [our Center for Health and Justice Transformation] is trying providencejournal.com/story/news/goo… via Providence Journal