Personal account. #harmreduction #publichealth #criminaljustice and #drugpolicy stuff. Views are my own.

Schenectady, NY
Joined June 2015
Let’s go!!!
14 years Sabres fans have been waiting for this. The @BuffaloBlade is flooding the streets and on way to the KeyBank Center 👀
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Me singing The Buffalo Bills Shout Song #buffalobills #letsgobuffalo #cover
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Reminder, I’m over at the other spot. Vibes are good.
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ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?! 📺: @paramountplus
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Our long-awaited reveal on #xylazine being a kappa opioid (also α2 + σ) has been published! Definitive: naloxone acts on xylazine. Props to Madigan and @ahuangxp who did the hands-on experiments #openaccess of course
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How can you earn a fully funded MPH or graduate public health certificate? Attend a HRSA webinar on October 12 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. to learn more: buffalo.zoom.us/j/9305651492… Learn more about HRSA on our website: publichealth.buffalo.edu/hom… #UBuffalo
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🧵International Overdose Awareness Day (#IOAD) is a solemn reminder of the overwhelming amount of people we have lost to overdose, & one life lost is one too many. Today & every day, we honor all those no longer with us & hold our grieving communities in our hearts.
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I’m so grateful to have known and spent time with Will- he was someone you couldn’t help but feel comfortable and at home with. Sending love to the @peernetworkofny and @VOCALNewYork families. ❤️
It is with heavy hearts that we are sharing the news that Will Robertson has passed. Will was a long time leader with our Users Union, and an active member @peernetworkofny. And, as he said it, a "boots on the ground harm reductionist."
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I’ve got some Bluesky invites for harm reduction, public health, CJ reform, etc folks. DM me.
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Oh hey all, I’m over at the new spot too. See you there.
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My role model @DrAyanaJordan - “I am here to save lives and not blow people up.” We are suffering so we can’t criminalize our way out of this. We know that invest in treatment and mental health, people are going to use drugs. We can’t focus on the supply alone.
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This is a must-read for people in drug policy/harm reduction/treatment spaces. @ravensspirit68 is someone who helped educate me on the issues chronic pain patients face and I’m thrilled to see her writing get this kind of audience.
"I was officially labeled a 'drug seeker' by certified mail." @ravensspirit68 describes having her essential pain care taken away for a decade. And the death of her daughter, Desiree, from counterfeit pills after she, too, was denied a prescription: filtermag.org/drug-seeker-pa…
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Timely reminder that the distribution of naloxone outside of health care systems was innovated by drug users and harm reduction programs 27 years ago.
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This drives me crazy. The first reports went out with zero confirmation of toxicology. News spreads of a “mass overdose” involving dozens of prison guards. News implies fentanyl. Toxicology LATER confirm drugs had nothing to do with the “event.” 1 goes viral, the other buried. – at Irvine, CA
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Given how many folks have done better and more creative versions of this, I’m officially retiring my annual PSA. I think this may have been my first. Go team!
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This thread right here.
Harm reduction saved my life. Years into recovery, I never forgot the kindness of Haven Wheelock. My family had forced me into treatment twice, only for me to relapse and OD. I walked into the syringe exchange scared and alone. I’d had a hep c exposure. 1/
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When I was still providing direct harm reduction services, I can’t tell you how common the sentiment of “you’re the only people who are actually nice to me” was. Harm reduction isn’t just supplies and programs, we can’t ever forget that.
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