thread: Bill Ferguson please bring SB420 to a vote in December to Override the Veto. #DecrimOurWorks #MarylandSOS #harmreduction #WarOnDrugs

Health starts where people live, learn, work, and play. We cannot expect people to get better without addressing the social determinants of health—such as housing insecurity, poverty, trauma, etc.—first. Treatment may not be what people need most if their basic needs aren’t met.

My heart is heavy heart, we lost Paul Bowman to a fatal overdose today. He spent 20+years of his life everyday, all day fighting for people with SUD to ensure access to treatment, basic needs, dignity, respect. Boston Medical Center MGH SUDs Initiative NIDAnews Mass. Public Health

I am a paramedic and I just administered buprenorphine to a patient experiencing opioid withdrawal in their living room. The future is now. #ems #PublicHealth #opioidcrisis

Lots of moral issues out there, drug use ain’t one of em. Artist: cmmnctnbrkdwn #support your local harm reduction coalition Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition

🎉There are no words to express the joy and excitement harm reduction advocates here in the US are feeling today- we can celebrate the opening of the first legally sanctioned Overdose Prevention Centers in New York City! 🎉

“Criminal justice system” is a misnomer. Our language and vocabulary should recognize that our system of racially biased policing, draconian punishment, and mass incarceration is not just. New from Vera Institute of Justice: vera.org/blog/why-we-sa…

Quick reminder for whoever needs to hear it tonight:

Thank you to everyone who supported our holiday toy drive! While the prison system is way more fucked than any toy can fix we hope this will make a hard day of visiting incarcerated loved ones a little brighter for the children at Elmira CF this Xmas 🎄🎁❤️takebackyourstory.org

This VD we’re taking back our stories from people who tried to sting us in our pasts. Designed by a formerly incarcerated artist to prompt reflection and reclaim power from that jerk who tried to hurt you but in hindsight did you a solid. Free download @: takebackyourstory.org

“Sales and delivery” of paraphernalia is SECONDARY DISTRIBUTION. Grabbing supplies for yourself and a friend is how we keep one another safe. #drugpolicy  #decrimourworks Bill Ferguson Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition

We have the chance to keep Marylanders who use drugs safe from criminalization. Governor Larry Hogan Bill Ferguson What’s stopping you? Pass HB481/SB509 #decrimourworks Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition

Allow people who use drugs to carry their supplies without fear of criminalization. Pass HB481/SB509 and #decrimourworks Bill Ferguson Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition

Criminalization increases the likelihood of people hiding their drug use. If we can reduce stigma and bring people out of isolation, we can reduce overdose death Bill Ferguson Pass HB481/SB509 and #decrimourworks

Every single dollar we spend on criminalizing drug paraphernalia is a dollar we could spend on saving lives Bill Ferguson Pass HB481/SB509 and #decrimourworks Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition

Every scientific and medical organization to study the issue has shown that legal access to sterile supplies reduces the spread of HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-borne diseases. Bill Ferguson Follow science not feelings. Pass HB481/SB509 and #decrimourworks

The most beautiful part of We Own this City was the networks ability to EMPLOY over 5000 locals — many of which were Black men and women with personal survival stories involving the crooked cops portrayed. People who never thought about working in TV are in unions now 🙏🏾

Great re-opening at the most interesting building in Baltimore The Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum A lot of people have spent countless hours over the past ten years making this happen. Kudos to all of them. A true accomplishment. Special thanks to Jackson Gilman-Forlini. I’m proud of you.

“Naloxone expansion is not associated with increases in adolescent heroin use and injection drug use: Evidence from 44 US states” by Emilie Bruzelieus et al (2023)…expanded access to naloxone needs to be for anyone and everyone! Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

“No single approach is ever likely to work for everyone who struggles with this complex condition. But we owe it to those who have SUD to ensure that secular, science-based treatment is the mainstay of their medical care” Important ⁦Maia Szalavitz⁩ nytimes.com/2023/03/11/opi…