Medicaid-4-All WAKE UP AMERICA!! We all get sick and US health is high cost low/value and cruelly inaccessible to 70 million+ people!!! foxnews.com/opinion/medica…

THIS FRI 6/3 Maria Betty Jovel Rivera and Peter Elvis Antonio Martinez, rural youth organizers engaged in gang prevention in El Salvador, will be presenting a virtual talk on the "Crisis in El Salvador" Register Here: uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

New evidence that forced substance use treatment (like other forms of incarceration) causes sharply elevated risk of death post-release, largely from overdose. Published in @DrugAlcoholDep sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This ~8000 person Swedish study of forced treatment confirms quantitatively what I've been seeing for years with respect to coercion of people with substance-use disorders. For example, that is why/how Carter died young in "Righteous Dopefiend".

Appreciate the coverage of the continuing teen overdose crisis in CA from LAist Emily Elena Dugdale We discussed the importance of giving naloxone to teens, accurate drug education, and resources like the Drug Policy Alliance curriculum laist.com/news/health/fe…

Tragically teens in LA are canaries-in-the-mine dying from toxic synthetic shifts in wholesale drug supplies across North America (Mexico, California, Philly, Vancouver...) Prohibitionist policies imposed the deadly transformation of available drugs laist.com/news/health/fe…

📣 Hot off the press! 💊 Edited by Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, Ph.D. (USMEX), Nathaniel Morris (UCL History) and Romain Le Cour (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), this #JIED Special Issue explores links in the North and Central America #drug trade. 👉 jied.lse.ac.uk/10/volume/4/is… LSE Press

🤝 By cultivating relationships with criminalized actors, a social science-informed public #health could develop innovative upstream #drug harm reduction. Read more from Fernando Montero (Columbia University), Joseph Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH and Philippe Bourgois (UCLA) ⬇️ doi.org/10.31389/jied.…

Our ethnographic dive into Philadelphia & Tijuana's "heroin" copping corners. Fentanyl/Xylazine flooding US rustbelt: "fent-tranq"--worse yet "tranq-fent". Going... going... gone.. to poppy-based "real heroin." & Crack vs Meth? Synthetics too $destructively$ fun :(! Illicit Economies & Development

Pediatrician Dr. Liz Barnert just published powerful book on generation of "disappeared" children from Salvadoran Revolutionary Civil War (1980s). It includes my: Foreword, Photo-Ethnographic Survivor's Testimony of surviving a scorched earth operation, & Children survivor drawings

Author copies of REUNION: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador! Pre-order is open. All author proceeds will be donated. ucpress.edu/book/978052038… What a journey! Thank you Philippe Bourgois, University of California Press (is on Bluesky), @probusquedasv, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, JMP, Human Rights Center! Happy holidays xo

Pre-ordering for REUNION is OPEN! Release Date Feb 7, 2023 amazon.com/Reunion-Findin…

Come to UCLA to see Kevin Coleman's documentary on political repression of unions by US banana corporations in 1930s Central America/Colombia and we will also discuss ongoing labor and civil rights repression:

What happens when mother and son, torn apart by war, reunite after 20 years apart? Find out next week, when REUNION launches! University of California Press (is on Bluesky) Human Rights Center David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Pro-Búsqueda Philippe Bourgois JMP ucpress.edu/book/978052038…

Dr. Liz Barnert will read from terrific new book on Salvadoran Civil War and human rights violations FEB 11 in Culver City, LA. I'll read my account of scorched earth campaign where I was trapped in Santa Marta, whose co-op leaders were arrested 1/11/2023 Dr. Liz Barnert ADES Santa Marta

TOMORROW Tues 3/21 at 9AM CA time (12PM Washington DC time) I will be presenting a career-retrospective of my fieldwork sites relevant to the urgency of developing upstream supply-side harm reduction in public health drawn from my participant-observation fieldwork collaborations

This Thursday 3/23 at 9am California time I'll be talking about the historical and contemporary context of inmates with psychosis spectrum disorders being an increasing proportion of the prisoners in the LA County Jail System.

REGISTER BELOW for this webinar May 3rd on political repression in rural El Salvador by president Bukele: docs.google.com/forms/d/1MWKrr…

larry krasner you a badass and we love you

Stream Professor K Coleman's excellent documentary on United Fruit Co. plantation union repression/massacres (free): Señal Colombia Sept 29 7pm California Time senalcolombia.tv See also my uncensored historical United Fruit Co. (Chiquita) archive: philippebourgois.net/ufco.html