Still a few hours left in Giving Tuesday 😏
Harm reductionists fill in the gaps- we saw it with our local community response to the fires in LA, amidst raids, and the every day acts that keep people on their feet (food, water, clothes, blankets, tarps, tents, pet supplies, etc.)
Similarly, instead of using AI, commission artists for their work!
How was it?? I took Amtrak to the AMERSA conference- I was worried I'd miss my talk with flight delays/cancellations. Good excuse to take the train up the West Coast!
Photo of the Sunday Edition paper of the LA Times. Headline reads: “Judge blocks Trump’s move to fine UCLA”
The UCFA/UCLAFA/AAUP victory is on the front page of today’s LA Times.
(No leadership or administrators were harmed in actually standing up to the Feds. because they didn’t.)
Three smiling women stand in front of a poster under fluorescent lights
My former student Brooke smiles in front of our poster
Blurry dark selfie of three laughing women in puffy jackets
Proud of Brooke & our small but mighty team of drug checkers at SLO Bangers, presenting @amersa.org
So great to hang w my social science collab “phone an anthropologist“ BFF sister @drteresa-winst.bsky.social (presented w her student on polydrug use) & w our LA DC fam @caitlinmolina.medsky.social
The unofficial AMERSA ACDC meet-up 🥰
Day 1 of @amersa.org in the books.
Looking forward to Day 2!
The Drug Checking LA team has a special guest at our workshop tomorrow (Rabiosa the FTIR).
Happy NFL Sunday to all who watch
The Aaron Rodgers sack count is at 2 so far.
Skol.
Congratulations! Great photos. I was wondering when your kid would be here!
Latinsky is 150 people away from having 1k on the feed!
Help #BuildTheBarrio and share this post so the Latine community on Bluesky knows that there’s a place for us here!
If you’re Latine, reach out to be included in the feed! If you’re an ally, share the post so your Latine friends see it too!
This point isnt being made enough. Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter.
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Experts often talk as if there are distinct "types" of homelessness—chronic vs episodic, hidden vs visible—but they miss something crucial.
Homelessness is a *spectrum of insecurity*: in a squalid motel today, on someone's couch tomorrow, in a tent next year.
Sweeps do NOTHING to stop this cycle.
Spent a lot of time with my cousin's kid this past week.
What a reminder at how open-minded and loving kids can be!
We talked harm reduction, service dogs (why Huxley couldn't be at places where other dogs were), how to express feelings...and he understood everything.
The kids are alright.
lolll this quote is a banger: “The best approach is putting drug dogs in the officer’s locker rooms, because that’s where it’s coming in.”
Great picture & great conversation!
My latest, with @kellydoran.bsky.social: In 2 major USMLE Step 1 & 2 Qbanks, vignettes with patients experiencing homelessness overrepresented HIV, TB, & substance use, underrepresented top causes of death like CV disease & cancer, & often used stigmatizing language link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Love seeing you & @kellymdoran.bsky.social collab!
So exciting! Wish I was there. I'm sending to a friend who is there
And then Drug Checking Los Angeles today: awesome project director @caitlinmolina.medsky.social and superstar collaborator @josephrfriedman.bsky.social had posters on the odd things we've been seeing in illicit drugs. Quetiapine (Seroquel) in heroin...Local anesthetics ('caines) in the fentanyl.
Who else is excited for ASAM??
I'm getting there early and will be on the hunt for the best coffee. Denver friends, drop your fave recs
Good morning runners, walkers, cyclists, and anyone else who likes to spend time outdoors.
Don't forget to carry naloxone. You never know when you need it.
I like to keep the injectable kind in my smaller bags.
Reason #2. "Of the 100 brand-name drugs, 32 were finished in the US, while 67 were finished in countries in the European Union, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, & the UK." #Tariffs will increase the cost of your medications.
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Crushing people doesn't make people safe & that just one way that "clearing" homelessness encampments harms health. No one wants there to be homeless encampments. But treating human beings as if they were garbage to be disposed of isn't a solution. @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993.
Congratulations, Alana!!
Children’s Hospital LA is lifting its recent restrictions on hormonal treatment for transgender youth www.latimes.com/california/s...
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has a new online misinformation hub with lots of really good resources addressing health topics frequently targeted by misinformation such as abortion, contraception, vaccines, and menopause. Here’s the link!
If you haven't yet read it, check out this research letter in JAMA led by @chelsealshover.bsky.social on the introduction of BTMPS in the illicit fentanyl supply across the US and why it's so concerning
cc: @morgangodvin.bsky.social
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More coverage this AM on the puzzling arrival of industrial chemical BTMPS in the illicit fentanyl supply
And a timely reminder of the value of public health research
With quotes from @chelsealshover.bsky.social @morgangodvin.bsky.social @nabarund.bsky.social
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Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
