The DG of Health Portugal expressed that stigma and discrimination are critical barriers to ovecome in supporting community-led orgs to provide health services, and PWID were added as a priority population in their national roadmap to hepatitis elimination #WorldHepatitisSummit

Prohibitionists want Involuntary Treatment for Anyone Revived With Naloxone | Scoop.it sco.lt/7ymTjs

There is no evidence to support Compulsory Treatment

What’s in our harm reduction kit?🧵

Substance Use & Addiction Journal has a new blog post! The following article has been published in Volume 45, Issue 2 of SAj_AMERSA

amersa.org/blog/

AMERSA members receive free access to all SAj articles.
Seonaid Nolan
@sagejournals

🎉 Exciting news! The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy is now ranked #31 among 141 pharmacy colleges in the U.S. according to U.S. News & World Report, marking our highest rank yet! Congrats to our incredible faculty, staff, and students for this achievement! 💙🐏

$10M/year just to try to find a reason to deny lifesaving treatment to your own citizens

It was an honor to get to discuss how the federal health programs can improve the care of patients with substance use disorders, particularly alongside my friend Sarah Bagley (she/her)

Our patients deserve evidence-based, high-quality care, and the federal health programs can help

The competencies for nurses, physicians, physician assistants, pharmacist, and social workers are published in SAj_AMERSA. AMERSA mission is to improve health and well-being through leadership and advocacy in substance use education, research, clinical care and policy.

AMERSA's competencies for addressing substance use in the 21st century are cited in this document released today from SAMHSA! @amersa_tweets samhsa.gov/sites/default/…

Shoutout to Jeffrey Bratberg, PharmD, FAPhA for ensuring pharmacists were represented in the AMERSA series of core competencies for health professionals addressing substance use that was published in SAj_AMERSA! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31809680

URI College of Pharmacy ranked among nation’s ‘Best Pharmacy Schools’ – Rhody Today ⁦RI Pharmacists⁩ ⁦American Pharmacists Association⁩ uri.edu/news/2024/04/u…

We have a lot to be proud of at URI College of Pharmacy this year! 💙🐏 Here’s a few reasons why…

You read this right: in Florida you will be charged with felony assault if someone else has an anxiety reaction near you. The law doesn’t require them to prove you did anything to them, just that they didn’t feel good around you. salon.com/2024/04/04/tou…

This new Florida law makes it a crime for an officer to have a panic attack if he thinks there's fentanyl near you. Its threshold is literally that an officer receives medical care for symptoms related panicking about fentanyl; no proof of exposure needed.
tallahassee.com/story/news/pol…

Congratulations to the #AMERSA2023 Best Workshop Award Winners: Rebecca Hosey, MPH, CRNP, Raagini Jawa MD, MPH, FASAM, @especially_apt, Rachel McFadden, Rachel Neuschatz, and @harmredux_rn

The award is determined each year based on participant reviews. Very well deserved!
amersa.org/award-winners/

I’m in Fargo and just ate a thing called hotdish

Bills under consideration in FL, WV, & TN would make it easier to charge people who use drugs with a fictitious crime...exposing law enforcement officers to fentanyl. Our own Claire Zagorski, MSc, LP explores this development with Ryan Marino, MD in Salon. #WTFentanyl salon.com/2024/04/04/tou…

A great crowd and fun atmosphere on the @UniversityofRI quad this afternoon for the #eclipse . #Eclipse2024 #GoRhody #URI

There are already people spending time in prison on trumped up charges related to exposing law enforcement to fentanyl. Three states are considering bills that would make it far easier to put people behind bars for this imaginary offense.

Put together a pretty rad gift basket for Concordia University Wisconsin’s School of Pharmacy Gala last night! Thanks Claire Zagorski, MSc, LP !!!