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Families With Loved Ones Lost to Overdose Call on Trump and Congress to Prioritize Health over Punishment Join our letter urging Trump and lawmakers to oppose more punishment and instead embrace lifesaving health responses to the overdose crisis.

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The original Department of Education was founded after the Civil War. It was an integral part of the effort to educate American Freedmen, the formerly enslaved.

Trump is not just trying to undo The Civil Rights era, he is trying to undo Reconstruction.

A new golden age of capitalist enslavement.

Our children are not pawns in Trump’s authoritarian power grab The president’s efforts threaten to roll back the U.S. education landscape to a Jim Crow-era, apartheid state

President Trump signed an executive order that he said would “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all.” Attempts to shutter the Department of Education are congressionally unlikely and legally questionable. theemancipator.org/2025/03/19/s...

USAid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’ Projects to detect, treat and research new ways to fight TB among those disrupted by sudden funding freeze

🚨🚨🚨“Dangerous new forms of tuberculosis for which there is no treatment could emerge as a result of US aid cuts. Dr Lucica Ditiu (head of the Stop TB Partnership), said she feared that interruptions to people’s treatment would allow the airborne bug to mutate into a new, untreatable form.”🚨🚨🚨

When you cut this many people off from HIV treatment, drug resistance will develop and a formerly manageable pandemic will erupt once again.

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Surviving an overdose can be excruciating. New research suggests it doesn’t have to be Naloxone is a fantastic tool in reducing opioid deaths, but gentler versions would be helpful for fighting overdose

Thank you, @clairezagorski.bsky.social ❣️

Grow a Spine: Democrats Have a Lot to Learn From the German Left The German elections show we don’t need to moderate fascism, we need to oppose it.

The centrist Social Democratic Party earned record low results, with 16 percent, and Green Party centrists lost a significant number of votes. U.S. Democrats must learn from their mistakes, and take notes from Germany’s left-wing party, the only party to dramatically exceed expectations on Sunday. 💜

Mexico's Lawsuit Against US Gunmakers Reaches Supreme Court Arguments begin March 4. The case pertains to drug trafficking-related violence in Mexico, with big implications for US-Mexico relations.

Do gun manufacturers in the United States bear responsibility for thousands of murders by drug trafficking organizations in Mexico? The Mexican government is suing companies for $10 billion in damages. The outcome could have dramatic implications for US-Mexico relations and the drug war. 💜

Absurdity knows no bounds. Our communities are painfully aware that police can be found guilty of gross and routine misconduct, abuse, and violence against the communities tasked to protect and serve and still have the audacity to request and be granted more resources to continue harmful behavior 💜

Inside Rhode Island’s Pioneering Overdose Prevention Center Filter sits down for an extensive interview with the co-director of the nation's first state-sanctioned OPC, which just began operations.

None of this would have been possible without our strong peer as a lot of people who are running recovery centers, a lot of people who are in recovery, but also a lot of harm reductionists. A lot of people have shifted their very recovery-focused work to look at harm reduction. ❤

Mayor Daniel Lurie is going after a new target in S.F.’s drug crisis: Free pipes and foil Mayor Daniel Lurie is going after a new target in S.F.’s drug crisis: Free pipes and foil

Restricting the supply of safer smoking supplies will force more drug users to share supplies, leading to the spread of diseases, and cause people to smoke less and inject more. Some studies suggest that injecting fentanyl results in a higher risk of overdose than smoking. 🩵

Thailand Cracks Down Harder on Vape Possession. Is There Hope? As law enforcement raids sweep a country which has had total prohibition for over a decade, harm reduction advocates haven't given up.

More police raids and arrests in Thailand have targeted both sales and personal possession of nicotine vapes.

Harm reduction advocate Asa Saligupta is on a committee presenting legalization recommendations to lawmakers today.

@kiransidhu41.bsky.social reports:

In Thailand, arresting those that use nicotine vapes. Weirdoes.

Trump to declare “illicit” fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.

"[T]he purpose is a combination of designating fentanyl cartels as terrorist organizations and [.] conducting military operations in Mexico and Canada."

"[I]t will be used domestically as justification for rounding up homeless encampments and deporting drug users."
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We're seeing people with mental health & substance use issues cut off from care due to cost, waitlists, & lack of options. To create thriving communities, we need solutions: healthcare, housing, & treatment access. Learn how we move from crisis to care: drugpolicy.org/resource/rep... #drugsky

📢 #HR25Bogotá Speaker Announcement 📢

We’re thrilled to announce @kojokoram.bsky.social Koram as a plenary speaker at the Harm Reduction International Conference 2025 (HR25).

Welcome slide for ORCA LEAB ❤️

❤️‍🔥Great meeting last night of the ORCA LEAB, which I co-facilitate with 2 fantastic colleagues, which brings the insights/ experiences of people w lived experience of OD in Seattle to creating an OD recovery center❤️ ~ alt to ED for post OD where MOUD and #harmreduction services will be available.✨

An article I've written about the unfortunate occurrence of drug exceptionalism in some harm reduction circles, where drugs like marijuana or psychedelics are elevated while drugs like methamphetamine or crack cocaine are looked down upon.

#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #Health #Drugs #Opioids […]

Just out in #HarmReductionJournal: another article from our realist review of international evidence on overdose prevention centres (AKA drug consumption rooms, supervised injecting facilities), showing how and for whom they work #harmreduction #OPCPrep 1/7 links.springernature.com/f/a/hWOfNJIE...

Anyone interested in doing a story on the wrongful termination of 5 peer support workers? Message me. #harmreduction #peersupport

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SFPD Drug Seizures “Significantly” Linked to Fatal Overdose, Data Show New federally funded research examining drug policing and overdose data out of San Francisco suggests that law enforcement-related drug seizures ...

"[L]aw enforcement-related drug seizures are associated with increases in nearby opioid-related overdose deaths immediately following the police actions."

"[E]levated risk persisted for seven days."
#harmreduction #sanfrancisco #california
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Republicans have fired THOUSANDS of Forest Service firefighters and other vital employees.
And vulnerable Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley? Even as wildfires threaten his northern CA district, he's MAGA all the way.

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Hiring Medication-Assisted Therapy (MAT) Coordinator
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Every community needs supervised consumption sites as readily available as bars. Also buying safe regulated substances should be as easy as picking up a bottle of whiskey or wine
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