andrea m. lópez

Infographic about federal funding for addiction research and treatment

Infographic about federal funding for addiction research and treatment

Federal funding plays a vital role in addiction research and treatment.

What are the potential effects of budgetary changes on these areas? Explore a summary from the University of Maryland School of Medicine that provides information on common concerns.

#NIHSavesLives @ummedschool.bsky.social

THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️ and that this labor falls mostly on faculty or color, women, queer faculty, or faculty from historically excluded categories.

John Lewis Never Stopped Bending the Arc Toward Justice In the last days of his life, the civil rights icon hailed Black Lives Matter protesters: “They’re going to help redeem the soul of America.”

"When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it." - John Lewis.

It's not enough to simply recognize something is wrong; we have a moral duty to act.

Time to activate the skills we use in other arenas like harm reduction and mutual aid. Safety planning and community care.

Harm Reduction Experts Improving Lives Since 1993 We are a harm reduction community based agency in Washington, DC that has been serving the nation's most vulnerable since 1993. We deliver programs and services aimed at helping our community lead he...

www.hips.org

4/ HIPS and harm reduction are resistance and mutual aid in action with so much expertise on how to fight the intensifying fights for justice. DEFIANT WORLD-MAKING

3/ As oppression accelerates rapidly, having a hub that isn’t subject to NIMBYism and rent hikes means that HIPS can be a forever home for our community members that are most targeted by structural violence.

2/ The populations HIPS serves have been the target of War on Drugs criminalization and anti-LGBTQIA legislation for decades.

One glimmer of hope: yesterday we at HIPS closed on the purchase of our harm reduction center building in DC. We fought hard to make this happen and the DC community showed up. This is MONUMENTAL for people subject to structural violence in DC.

#infectiveendocarditis is growing in the US due to our aging population and increases in injection drug use. This is one of the first community samples to look at risk factors for #IE-IDU in the US led by @sidganesh.bsky.social with @jabarocas.bsky.social et al.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kcFD1LiD3...

⬇️⬇️⬇️ + we know *who* gets access to what and *how* is always deeply racialized

Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation. The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

My latest.

As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.

I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.

Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

@remorahousedc.bsky.social and HIPS support people displaced from encampments. Displacement puts people at extreme risk for health & mental health crises as well as overdose. Punitive measures are not the solution.

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I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night.

Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar.

I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below.

What an immense loss

I work at NIH. The fear among staff is palpable. "It felt like all functions of our job had just been completely stripped away, like the system had been completely crippled."

Agreeing to speak on the condition of anonymity, one NIH researcher describes in chilling detail the “chaos” of the Trump administration’s first days.

Here’s what they’ve seen in their own words.

The socio-historical reasons our communities are skeptical of public health institutions. Every intervention & study must account for these harmful histories. These were our great/grandparents before our parents were subject to forced assimilation programs. PS: we were there before that border :)

Welp! NIH diversity supplement grants now have newly updated expiration dates dates of January 2025 revised from May 2026. 🤷‍♀️
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

Commentary by @maiasz.bsky.social featuring @rnbluthenthal.bsky.social

Opinion | Why Drug Overdose Deaths Are Dropping for Some, Rising for Others Drug overdose deaths are finally declining. But it’s going to take work to keep this trend going.

Overdose death = a window into racialized disparities. Communities impacted by structural violence know wins don’t always apply evenly, & historical pain deepens: “…while such deaths are falling sharply among white people, they are still skyrocketing among Black people and Native Americans.”

Picture of book: Crackdown by garth Mullins. Picture of a man sitting by many crosses.

I received a test pressing of my book - called a galley. Out in April 2025, but you can pre-order. Because of low vision, I was late to reading & still have trouble spelling. I read my first real book when I was 16. I never thought I'd be responsible for writing one. www.amazon.ca/Crackdown-Su...

I’d love to be added :)

One thing that makes sense: tabling for HIPS DC at the DC Punk Rock Flea! We trained so many people & spread that harm reduction love 🖤🌹, while also talking about dismantling oppressive systems :)