Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP

THREAD. A recent poll shows that people in the United States suffer from mass delusion about crime. The results are alarming for Democrats. It should be a massive scandal for mainstream news, and it's a pillar of the authoritarian zeitgeist.

Trump’s team has delayed & is considering canceling $140M in grants to fund fentanyl overdose response efforts.

The last time a major national interruption of addiction care occurred (in 2020 under Trump) deaths skyrocketed.

How can you interpret this any other way than they want Americans to die?

Phew 😅

Regulating the drug supply makes complete sense right up until you realise prohibition ensures some classes of people can always been persecuted by law enforcement. The "risk of drugs" is like a broken tail light on the backs of the most marginalised

It’s just so unserious. Israel is a politically diverse country too and many Israelis are speaking out against their right wing government and American Jews as well

Thanks for chatting with me in line at Starbucks @schiff.senate.gov 💪🏼

Welcome to the party!

In case you were wondering what the numbers in parenthesis are - they are called semi-quant results. Here is an explainer.

Drug checking sample: Laboratory Detected Substances Fentanyl (10) Xylazine (8) 4-ANPP (4) Lidocaine (4) BTMPS (Tinuvin 770) (3) 6-Monoacetylmorphine (3) Ethyl-4-ANPP (2) Bromazolam (2) Phenethyl-4-ANPP (trace) Papaverine (trace) Medetomidine (trace) Heroin (trace) Caffeine (trace) Cocaine (trace) Methamphetamine (trace) Acetaminophen (trace) Morphine (trace) Type Community Sample Date 05/2025 State / Group Massachusetts Location Lynn

This is from a single sample, sold as fentanyl, from the drug supply in Lynn, MA. This is what it looks like for government to surrender its regulatory power to the market. This is what we are subjecting our friends and family too instead of oxy or heroin. This is a policy CHOICE.

We have so much of this in our supply. Along with medetomidine… displacing the xylazine

@ryanmarino.bsky.social you’ve been at this for like… 9 years now?

SUFFIELD, Conn. (WFSB) - 5 staff members from the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield have been hospitalized after an inmate overdosed. At around 9:30 a.m., staff of the Walker building, which is a part of the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, responded to the cell of an inmate who was exhibiting signs of apparent overdose. The responding staff administered a dose of Narcan. The inmate was revived to the point he could be sent out in an ambulance to a local hospital for further treatment. A short time later, 5 staff members reported having symptoms of dizziness, tingling in the extremities, and feeling extremely hot. They were taken to the hospital for treatment. Connecticut state police were notified of the incident.

None of these are overdose symptoms. This is panic causing hyperventilation. When you over-breathe, you blow off too much CO₂. First, tingling in your hands and feet, then dizziness/fainting. Your body responds by tightening airways to slow breathing, which feels like you can’t breathe/are choking.

Thank you ❤️

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also, sharpie it on bathroom stalls, spray paint it under bridges, get it out there. it makes a difference.
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We have a 24/7, holidays, weekends, nights… free hotline where you can call in from anywhere in the USA (including Puerto Rico!) and within 15 seconds be connected with a peer who will hang out with you for 10-30 mins while you use just in case. we only activate EMS 0.1% of the time. 1-800-972-0590

Survivors: we fight and win together.

You are never forgotten. ✊✊✊

Thanks mike!

This is not the way.

The lack of basic medical literacy by the media is really sad.

No strong opinion on this. My warm take is that the mass media publicizing of correlational studies confuses the public and makes them trust science less

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Yesterday my 3 year old cried bc I sliced her pizza too thin

Great job as always to @raaginizzle.bsky.social 💪🏼

We have a 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:

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Yeah sorry “left” should have been in quotations

Again… I ask the left to stop focusing on right wing drug use. It’s literately the most normal thing about them.

It’s wild what government can provide its citizens when it isn’t spending all of the money on bombs and cops

This delivery device looks awfully familiar!

Back in the parade marching days 👨‍🚒

Amy I’m not sure bc you are quoted in the original Kimber story in the Berkshire Eagle from 2021 but I spoke to Corey on the phone back in 2020. It’s so bad there now!! Grateful to have BOTH of you perfect humans in my life