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Overdose deaths are declining because of harm reduction, and in spite of everything that the DEA, law enforcement, abstinence-only zealots, and NIMBYs do to make this crisis worse.

Partly because of organizers + health educators who are shoving Narcan into people's hands and showing them and their loved ones how to use it non stop! IT'S WORKING! Get some Narcan, keep it with you, learn how to recognize overdose and how to use the Narcan. It saves lives!

Prop 36 is polling like it’s going to pass in a landslide. It increases the penalty for drug possession to 3 years in prison. 3 years in prison for possessing crumbs of drugs, not committing crimes. The War on Drugs is thriving. 1/

When I’ve used drugs in ways that led to addiction it was always to treat pain, physical or mental. When I hear people talk about medications that have a potential for abuse it always stuns me because someone desiring to alleviate pain is not abuse, it’s a normal human response.

This is a first for me I think - a tweet quoted in a news story I didn't know about or comment on. I stand by what I said and this was not an appropriate use of naloxone. The fact this officer is "in line for a commendation" for how he treats "addicts"... yikes

The US is increasingly criminalizing homelessness – and with that comes aggressive sweeps of encampments. How does destroying the few items that vulnerable people have left to their names make any community safer? projects.propublica.org/homeless-encam… via ProPublica

This is important, though. Just because someone requires you to document certain things doesn’t mean you can’t still protect your patients. You actually have a moral and ethical obligation as a healthcare provider to protect vulnerable groups.

Elizabeth the bluecheck hider from the state that brought you scrubbing homeless encampments in the record-heat summer comes refusing to ban slavery

I've seen San Diego throw away medicine, IDs and lots of other important stuff to people over the years. They just don't care.

I have never heard of anyone successfully retrieving anything from the bin sites items are supposed to be stored in after sweeps. I don't think they exist, they just say they do.

If you're a young person unsure about where to channel your activist energy after Trump's election, you should seriously consider becoming a salt There's no better way to get a crash course in workplace organizing — and to contribute to rebuilding a powerful labor movement

Important to note that this is a massive undercount and it’s likely 2.5 to 10 times higher.

As wildfires blaze in California, we're reminded of the incarcerated people who are deployed to fight them – an extremely dangerous job that pays just dollars per day.

LA city’s priority during the worst wildfires in history remains the same: terrorizing poor people.

THREAD. One of the most dishonest and alarming trends in copaganda is the disgusting intermingling and conflation of homelessness and violent crime. The people executing this propaganda campaign are responsible for an enormous amount of preventable suffering and death.

The aircraft collision at Ronald Reagan Airport is, unironically, Ronald Reagan's fault.

Harm reduction isn’t about nudging people toward abstinence—it’s about rejecting the idea that drug use makes someone disposable in the first place.

Published at Nature today.

Lipstick on a pig. There are about 25 beds that open up each day. Now only persons from 8 agencies will have ability to fill those beds. The end user still cannot book themselves a bed. Case workers have more clients than available beds and they have to choose among them.

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