I urge you to be precise with your language when sharing information about kratom and derivatives. We need regulation but not blanket bans. bsky.app/profile/morg...

On this edition of Century: The Math of Fentanyl - my conversation with @morgangodvin.bsky.social kboo.fm/media/133979... #SupportPublicMedia #SupportCommunityRadio #SupportKBOO

Kratom is not the same thing as 7-Oh. Kratom = plant, safe, long used. 7Oh = lab-made with deceptive marketing, causing unwitting physical dependencies. Read about the differences here, backed by data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Normalize taking methadone at the United Nations! The 69th Commission on Narcotic Drugs has wrapped. The US is still being the US. International diplomacy is incredible and very far from obsolete. It may save us yet. PS - Austria is the 17th country I’ve traveled to while on MOUD.

What’s a good venue to host a research symposium in Salem, Oregon? ~75 person capacity. Don’t say Pringle Hall, it’s booked.

Any substance use journal editors lurking around here? I have an idea for a viewpoint on something that’s been popping up in the press with increasing frequency, but would love to run it by someone!

minnesota has a right to defend itself

Is possession of a firearm a necessary prerequisite to having the government respect your rights, or a license for said government to execute you on the spot? I am very confused by the “don’t tread on me” crowd suddenly being anti-handgun..?

“Unemployed at 25, Nick had spent a decade bouncing between this gated enclave and at least 18 rehab facilities paid for by his parents, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner.” Treatment should *work.* I am infuriated by this stat. US treatment is so broken. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good. In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric. It’s not. /1

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

They've arrested people on less evidence before

What happened to my generation? War, death, and addiction became more commonplace than prosperity. More of my friends went to Iraq than to college after high school. This documentary is incredible and is one part of the “why” the US experienced diverged so far. youtu.be/RIWfH3iEgXU?...

Back on October 3, I gave a briefing to Congressional staffers and warned about precisely this. Here’s a short excerpt from that briefing.

He isn’t right often, but Rand Paul is right about Venezuela policy.

The European Union Drugs Agency’s Drug School is a jam-packed educational session covering all things drugs and drug policy. The Winter session is online in early March. Registrations are open! www.euda.europa.eu/event/2026/0...

This week, I officially started my study visit at the European Union Drugs Agency in Lisbon, Portugal. This is a three-month collaborative research effort between Drug Checking Los Angeles at UCLA and EUDA, focusing on opioids.

Max Huntsman, the inspector general tasked with holding the LA Sheriff’s Department to account, is retiring… and going out with a bang in this letter 🔥

“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.” By @keribla.bsky.social

Drug Checking Los Angeles makes a guest appearance in this great piece in the NYT today about the misguided war on harm reduction, where the casualties will be your kids and neighbors. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/h...

Everyone wants to talk about the cost of doing business in America. But no one is mentioning that anything “Made in the USA” didn’t just pay to make the item, but also for the *healthcare costs* of workers’ entire families. We will never be able to compete.

BREAKING: Drug cartels are feared to be among those that obtained sensitive court data due to a sweeping breach of the federal judiciary’s case filing system.

Thank you, everyone who came out to hear the brilliant @maxjordan.bsky.social, @morgangodvin.bsky.social @chelsealshover.bsky.social, and me chat about #LiberateMethadone. It shouldn't be easier to get the poison than the cure. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781015...

“Mother of Methadone” book talk this Thursday in Culver City. I’m a panelist and finishing the book and loving it, it’s going to be a great talk. Learn how history shaped policy, and why we are so dysfunctional, hear me rant, and more! 7/24 at 7pm www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

Come here me, a methadone patient, rant as a panelist this Thursday in Culver City! www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

Los Angeles people: Come see me speaking at a book talk with @maxjordan.bsky.social and “Mother of Methadone” author @melodyglenn.bsky.social. I’m on methadone, it’s gonna be a lively chat! Thursday July 24, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

The Kremlin also didn’t want to have to explain what happened between 1939-41 under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact when they allied themselves with the Nazis to carve up Poland & other countries. That’s why Russian war memorials say WWII happened between 1941-45 instead of 1939-45. They lied in stone.

Harm reduction works! A “bad batch” of what I infer to have been sold as fentanyl caused 27 overdoses in Baltimore, ZERO DEATHS. Everyone was reversed with naloxone. A few years ago, this would’ve been a very different story. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/pu...

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

Dear Americans: Medicare for All is not nationalized healthcare, it’s single payer, like Canada. The government pays for private doctors to provide care via fee-for-service. National healthcare is the VA system, where payer and provider are both the govt, and doctors are salaried govt employees.

on the last day of the United States, when this country has finally descended into civil war, i will do a thread on how to dress for summer

Happy 249th Birthday America. You don’t look a day over 1938 Germany.

My sophomore year roommate at UT was a white girl born in Malawi to her white missionary parents. She checked “African American” on her app. Does the Times want to blow the lid off of this scandal? DM me booboo

Celebrated my freedom to shoot people and go into medical debt (but not my freedom from being shot or going into medical debt) by going to a political-prison-turned-museum documenting the fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The “unquestionable certainties” that undergirded the regime are familiar.1/

I haven’t had a car payment since 2012. I just bought a “new” car, replacing my 2008 Prius with a 2012 Prius C. This coming from the crowd that are baffled at how I can afford to travel. One of your monthly car payments is my round trip to Europe boo, now multiply that by years!

I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”

Presenting on data that shows an average fentanyl user uses the equivalent of 9,600+ milligrams of IV morphine per day at #cpdd25 in New Orleans!

When are police aggressive, vs when are they civil? When they first had a warrant for my arrest, they knew I was a 24 yr old girl, former EMT, who always showed up for meetings with my probation officer, whose only “crime” had been being found in possession of the drug to which I was addicted. 1/

Trump and his followers really do just want small government. Small enough to fit under a crown.

If impenetrable logic would’ve won the war, my friends, we’d be champs. Instead it’s us over here with these grammatically pristine treatises, identifying their unequivocal hypocrisy, and then them just screaming personal insults at us rather than responding to policy issues + yet somehow winning.

oh, hey, it's portland 2020.

Make people so afraid to show up for court that they don’t, then arrest and deport them for missing court, as if you didn’t orchestrate that from the beginning. 1/

“…his team had come across a homeless camp with 300 syringes in it, mostly uncapped.” Who gives a shit? There’s a pile of stuff in your house more dangerous. Sounds like they were collecting their used syringes and not leaving them around willy nilly. www.thelundreport.org/content/rose...

Got some (liquid) fentanyl sprayed on me this week by a colleague medicating a badly-injured patient, and didn’t die or even have any effects. My urine (most sensitive way to test for fentanyl exposure - I have tons of test strips at home cause I give them out lol) was also negative for fentanyl :/