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I can never overstate how much grief is embedded in the lived experience of people who use drugs. Remember that when asking us to come to the table.

People who use drugs deserve the same level of consumer protection as everyone else. It’s that simple.

Harm Reduction is not a pathway to recovery - It is a movement to end Prohibition and its harms on our communities

Beware of bringing people with “lived experience” on board. There are huge pushes to include LE in policy development, but so much of the stigma PWUD face comes from the “recovery community” - also it’s funny they think harm reduction has funding.

"It's OK to admit a mistake was made" - Stephen Murray on Opioid prescribing policy in the US

What I find interesting is even for the 10% of people who become addicted to “hard drugs” a regulated supply would still benefit them anyways. They would be less likely to die, not have to worry about being incarcerated for drugs which leads to worse outcomes.

Something that is constantly missing form the conversation on overdose: not everyone is suffering. Drugs are pretty awesome. This whole drugs are bad narrative is a bunch of Prohibitionist nonsense. All drugs have purpose, strengths and limitations.

Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP Labeling all illicit drug use as problematic use is the only way the government can even ever hope to keep the drug war chugging along. Prohibition creates the very environment that it claims to be fighting. Federal legalization and regulation now. Legalize and educate!

Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP One of my unpopular opinions is that severely suicidal people should be offered medical-grade heroin, morphine or hydromorphone as a mental health treatment. I suspect it would save a radically high number of lives.

"As addiction journal editors...We are issuing a call to the addiction science community to reverse the unethical, illegal & unscientific activities of the Trump Admin & the activities of other govts that interfere w the pursuit of scientific knowledge" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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Reminder to left-leaning press — paywalling your stories is restricting the flow of information to the people who need to read it. Conservative media does not use this tactic nearly as much. The New York Times The Atlantic The Washington Post please find another way!!

Some news ❤️

DRUG USE IS NOT A MORAL ISSUE 🥰🥰🥰 THE ACT OF USING A SUBSTANCE IS NOT MORALLY BAD OR GOOD😄💚😄 NEITHER IS BEING SOBER 🌈🌈🥰😘💕💕💙💜💜💛💖💖 HARD AND SOFT DRUG DICHOTOMIES DO NOT EXIST💯 IT IS IN YOUR MIND 😜🩷 SHAME AND STIGMA HURT EVERYONE 💯🩷💯❤️‍🩹

The only thing that makes me as as sick as the the leader of the formerly “free world” is the anti-opioid dogma that has infested the minds and work of people who COULD CHANGE IT FOR THE BETTER WHEN THEY KNOW IT’S WRONG.

It fascinating how the demonization of drugs has impacted how people view suboxone and methadone that’s why people are fighting so hard for it to be sober and not “trading one addiction for another”

✨ I feel deeply honored that Policing Patients received the Herbert Jacob Book Prize from the Law and Society Association. I love being part of this smart, engaged, and generous community of scholars ✨ Law and Society Princeton University Press WashU Sociology Harvard Radcliffe Institute

This medication delivery device looks awfully familiar….

new paper out: “Stigmatizing content about xylazine in web-based news continues to proliferate, highlighting the need for collaborative efforts between the journalistic, medical, and public health sectors to challenge these narratives.” Read here: journals.lww.com/journaladdicti…