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Summer Fight For Science 2025 — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE The Mission: Save Science

@standupforscience.bsky.social‬ is leading a summer-long series of grassroots, local actions anyone can take to show support for the science and research community targeted by the Trump admin.

How to take action, find an event near you, or host your own: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight...

I talk to everyone anywhere. Politicians will do what they believe is popular we need to be loud and clear criminalization is not what works and not what the public supports. Which means one by one we all talk to a member of the public everyday until it grows to a roar.

How can people advocate to #freemethadone? I support legalization but in the mean time can I do anything to get people access to Methadone? I’m just a heart- broken citizen wondering why it’s so hard for people to get an FDA medication. @drugpolicy.org @aclu.org

It worked. Keep calling. 202-224-3121.
Let’s get the entire bill trashed.

And here is a link to the bill as it passed out of Budget two nights ago. The crazy thing is—this isn’t even the final version they are expecting to vote on. Because they haven’t posted that one yet—which they’re still cutting deals on.

You can check it out for yourself here ⬇️

Rules Committee Hearing H.R. ____

Friends—it’s 10:00 pm Eastern and the Republicans will **BEGIN** Rules debate on Reconciliation three hours from now at 1:00 am in the dark of night.

Here is a link to watch the debate:

Act now! Tell the administration to expand access to lifesaving care by… | American Society of Addiction Medicine - ASAM Act now! Tell the administration to expand access to lifesaving care by eliminating the DEA’s prohibition on the prescribing of methadone for OUD. Use this toolkit to submit your comment >> ht...

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URGENT: We demand humane temperatures for all incarcerated people NOW! No one deserves to suffer in extreme heat or cold.

Join us in advocating for justice and better conditions.
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#HumaneTemperatures #IncarcerationReform
#BeatTheHeat

A grotesque moment in extractive capitalism. #abpoli #cdnpoli

ASAM on X: "Act now! Tell the administration to expand access to lifesaving care by eliminating the DEA’s prohibition on the prescribing of methadone for OUD. Use this toolkit to submit your comment >> https://t.co/vawtIdrkKb https://t.co/8jc3AzwsZR" / X Act now! Tell the administration to expand access to lifesaving care by eliminating the DEA’s prohibition on the prescribing of methadone for OUD. Use this toolkit to submit your comment >> https://t.co/vawtIdrkKb https://t.co/8jc3AzwsZR

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ASAM on X: "Act now! Tell the administration to expand access to lifesaving care by eliminating the DEA’s prohibition on the prescribing of methadone for OUD. Use this toolkit to submit your comment >> https://t.co/vawtIdrkKb https://t.co/8jc3AzwsZR" / X Act now! Tell the administration to expand access to lifesaving care by eliminating the DEA’s prohibition on the prescribing of methadone for OUD. Use this toolkit to submit your comment >> https://t.co/vawtIdrkKb https://t.co/8jc3AzwsZR

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Forgot @transformdrugs.bsky.social

Imagine telling a parent there is a medication w/ a proven 50% chance of saving their child’s life & access to it is being denied by outdated policies & protection of private equity firms. That is profit over people multiple times a day. For years. There are no words for the depth of this atrocity.

Thank you for being open to sharing knowledge around drug use. All the lost potential over opinion and a tragic obsession with prohibition has been heart-breaking and horrifically devastating. Evidence based decisions would save lives.

If you are serious about saving lives talk to @ryanmarino.bsky.social @garthmullins.bsky.social @zoedodd.bsky.social @vitalstrategies.org
I am no expert but MOUD, housing and UBI or skills training would likely offer more long term stability than “treatment.”

FYI the ASAM Guidelines are MOUD (Medications for Opioid Use Disorder) with or without counseling. There is no over site of these “treatment” centers. There is a study that doing nothing is safer than abstinence based treatment. Be cautious of all those making money off of PWUD. And there are many.

The War on Recovery War on Recovery: A STAT series examining how the U.S. denies lifesaving medications such as methadone and buprenorphine to people with opioid addiction.

This is a good series as a primer:

www.statnews.com/category/war...

A State-by-State Guide to the Cruelty of the Methadone Clinic System Ten states require "observed urine collection"; 19 demand a "certificate of need" for a clinic to open. But the answer is not more clinics.

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It should not matter where someone lives they deserve access to any FDA approved medication. Methadone reduces mortality by over 50% but the regulations prevent its use by anyone not living close enough to a OTP. And criminalization? People will be denied housing and employment for a decade.

There were over 100,000 lives lost to drug use. These are preventable deaths. There is a bill stalled because the Methadone clinics are owned by private equity firms and they hired lobbies to block it. Please have someone on your staff read:

downloads.asam.org/sitefinity-p...

Legalize Marijuana Right Marijuana legalization should prioritize public health, consumer safety, and justice for those harmed by criminalization. The Drug Policy Alliance supports reforms that benefit people's wellbeing, not...

This is a good place to start. I am sure there are many more.

drugpolicy.org/issue/legali...

Expanding Medicaid in Wisconsin would save the state $1.7B, report finds Wisconsin is one of 10 states that has not expanded Medicaid under the ACA, and is considered the bluest state to avoid expansion.

Cruelty is expensive. Thank you for supporting expansion.
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This guy has been posing from the beginning. He was never about supporting the vulnerable. Ever.

Call 202-224-3121 and tell your representative to vote NO on the GOP’s Medicaid cuts.

House Republicans are trying to gut health care for millions of families so billionaires can get another tax break.

It’s obscene, and we can still stop it if we fight back right now.

gift link: wapo.st/3YLDNtL

"More than 116,000 metric tons of food aid have been sitting in position along the aid corridors into Gaza, UNICEF & the World Food Program said, adding that it represents enough food to feed 1 million people for four months."

Mass starvation is a choice.

Report: One in five people in Gaza could starve to death within months Almost 250,000 are already starving under Israel's blockade, according to the UN.

Nearly 470,000 people in the Gaza Strip, or approximately one in five of its residents, could starve to death in the coming months under Israel’s total aid blockade, according to a new report published Monday.

This is a really good conversation...it is worth your time to watch. Some useful information to absorb.