Fatal Opioid Overdoses by Historical and Contemporary Neighborhood-Level Structural Racism jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Happy International Drug Users Day! ❤️ A day to celebrate our communities, our resilience and the fight that never stops. We’ve faced stigma, criminalisation and hate — but we’re still here, stronger than ever. We are proud. We are loud. We are not going anywhere. #IDUD2025

Free DULF cofounders doing public health work the is state antagonizes: #SafeSupply!!!🍀✨ Their work is amazing. #HarmReduction Safe Supply saves lives.

Safe Supply saves lives!!! Defend these public health workers helping people govt actively antagonizes. #HarmReduction #SafeSupply #DrugWar

End the trumped up War on Drugs! With #SafeSupply! And #HarmReduction! I found that infographic I was looking for, summarizing DULF’s 1 year preliminary findings treating people with a safe supply of drugs: #PublicHealth #DrugWar dulf.ca/wp-content/u...

The rate of overdose death in NYC decreased by 29%​. Overdose death rates decreased for the 1st time since​ 2018 among Black & Latino New Yorkers but remain​ about twice as high as the rate of overdose death​ among white New Yorkers. NYC Health-Epi Data Brief-October 2025 www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/d...

"In a province where five people per day die from the toxic and unregulated drug supply, not one member of the compassion club overdosed while using the DULF supply" DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court: themainlander.com/2025/10/15/d... #drugsky

CDUHR investigator Vincent Guilamo-Ramos is quoted in a new CLAFH microsite, "For over a decade we’ve sounded the alarm on the Latino HIV Crisis, yet invisibility & inaction persist. Urgent, cross-sector action is needed to harness Latino resilience and change course" nursing.jhu.edu/institute-fo...

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Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

“She was flat-out brilliant,” Professor Dasgupta said in an interview. “She identified problems in the system and could frame injustices in truly amazing ways.” @nabarund.bsky.social #Psychsky #harmreduction

🧵 #Prohibition has never kept people safe, and has caused more deaths from toxic supply. This has been true throughout history. "The government already regulates and allows the sale of one of the most deadly substances in the world: alcohol. Nyx points out that... bit.ly/SafeSupplySavesLives

🧵We know what happens when #SyringeServicesPrograms (SSPs) aren’t available or shut down. Among other dangers, #HIV rates tick upward. We know what we need to keep us safe — we need #HarmReduction, #Housing, & our other basic human rights to be respected. bit.ly/HIVOutbreaksAndHarmReductionRollbacks

We are heartbroken by the passing of Louise Beale Vincent, Executive Director of the National & NC Survivors Unions. A fierce leader in harm reduction, she worked with compassion and courage to save lives and inspire countless others. She will be deeply missed.

"Nitazenes are probably too dangerous to legalise. But the best way to reduce harm to drug users and revenues for criminal gangs is to allow addicts regulated access to better-understood opioids, including heroin." www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

An HIV outbreak in Bangor, Maine is being linked to several factors, including the closure of sterile syringe programs, a shortage of HIV medical providers, and the clearing of a large homeless encampment. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Join us! Visual AIDS presents: Harm Reduction Today- Needle Exchange, Abolition, and Sex Parties, Oh MY!! MoMA PS1 Saturday, September 27, 2025, 4:00pm–5:30pm #harmreduction #drugsky @vocal-ny.bsky.social @jawanza.bsky.social @flordepascua.bsky.social (See alt text for description of event)

Counting overdose deaths is an act of social justice. Numbers are not neutral: they criminalize or erase. We urgently need care policies and harm reduction that respect autonomy and dignity. #IOAD2025 #OverdoseAwarenessDay #EndOverdose #HarmReduction #StopTheStigma

Nuestra campaña Narcanazo es creada y liderada por la comunidad. Nos movilizamos porque salvar vidas en la crisis de opioides requiere diálogo, acceso a la naloxona y promoción de la salud. Un Solo Pueblo Un Solo Propósito Salvar Vidas con Narcanazo #drugsky #harmreduction

More than 800,000 Americans have died from opioids since 1999. But there’s another drug-related crisis in the US: the exploitative, underregulated drug rehab industry. On this week's episode of @revealnews.org's "More To The Story." Listen to the full episode here: tinyurl.com/yc5ude3w

🧵 #ClimateChange has direct impacts on all people, including people who use drugs. Heat waves & other extreme weather events exacerbate overdoses & other #PublicHealth issues, especially for unhoused folks. People who use drugs face layers of barriers to life-saving care & shelter. bit.ly/HeatAndODs

Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigators Yesenia Aponte-Meléndez, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, & Alex Bennett - Overdoses with Xylazine and Fentanyl Recorded in Pennsylvania’s Overdose Information Network... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Drug war was built for control, not care. Now history is repeating itself. 🧵

Your voices have value! If you are someone who uses c0c4in3, our partners from @echelecabeza and @institutoriamx would like to hear from you as part of the research to develop a public policy proposal for c0c41n3 regulation. Fill the survey: https://forms.gle/JTW89nTqQZQYmYrW6

Harm reduction saves lives. Naloxone saves lives. Syringe exchange saves lives. Overdose prevention centers save lives. People who use drugs are lifesavers; they are first responders. Testing strips save lives. Knowledge is power.

Lean esta historia de Iniciativa Comunitaria y su proyecto de cuarto de inyección más segura. La reducción de daños en Puerto Rico nace formalmente con @iniciativapr (Instagram). ¡Gracias por ser ejemplo de liderazgo y modelo a seguir! #HarmReduction #DrugSky #PuertoRico #overdoseprevention

Housing is a human right. No law, policy, order, or campaign will ever change that. Take action against the criminalization of our unhoused communities. Read the statement and get involved with our friends at ‪@homeless-law.bsky.social‬: bit.ly/NHLCActionAlert #HousingNow #StopTheSweeps

BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4

Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.

Bronx Móvil works July 4 and most holidays. Harm reduction must be 24/7 & year round. Bronx Móvil está en las calles este fin de semana repartiendo el amor radical de reducción de daños. #HarmReduction #Drugsky #boricuassalvandovidas #community #OverdosePrevention #naloxonesaveslives #LatinMedSky

New comic from XADUD (@Metzineres) & EuroNPUD via BOOST: “Hep C without a mess” shares real, peer-led info on hepatitis C. English and Spanish versions available now on our website! Read the cartoon: 🔗 buff.ly/ArWNFVk #HarmReduction #BOOSTProject

Health & Economic Costs of Homelessness "ample evidence that encampment sweeps increase social & health harms without achieving any of their stated policy aims—reductions in homelessness, encampments, or mortality among marginalized populations of unhoused people." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Harm reduction works! Community led, culturally and linguistically centered, and mobile. Truly "meeting people where they're at"!

"Crucial SAMHSA research is also in peril, former employees warned. This month, the agency stopped updating the Drug Abuse Warning Network, a nationwide surveillance system of drug use trends and insights drawn from emergency department visits." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Providing homeless people with housing: - reduces crime - increases employment - improves health - does not increase reliance on social benefits. 80% of the costs are offset by the benefits in the first 18 months. Evidence from the US

Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

Drug deaths plummet among young Americans as fentanyl carnage eases "In your generation, people used drugs. In my generation people used drugs, we just didn't use to die as much from them," -Noa Krawcyzk www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...

Check out the latest study from CDUHR affiliated investigators Bennett Allen & Magdalena Cerdá - Considerations for the epidemiological evaluation of hyperlocal interventions: A case study of the New York City overdose prevention centers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In commemoration of Memorial Day, we highlight the invaluable contributions of CDUHR-affiliated investigator Alex Bennett in mitigating the effects of opioids on veterans “No one can deny that these veterans deserve the best care possible, and they are being left behind,” www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

For opioid addiction, treatment underdosing can lead to fentanyl overdosing – a physician explains "At higher doses, patients stay on treatment longer, use illicit opioids less often, have fewer complications such as hep C, have fewer ER visits & hospitalizations" theconversation.com/for-opioid-a...

In the 10 years since Pope Francis released Laudato Si', dioceses across the United States have responded to varying degrees to the encyclical's call to care for the planet and its people. Here are 10 of those stories.

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

From the trenches: cutting & gutting federal support for naloxone and harm reduction services will negatively impact the USA and the world. We must continue to save lives! #HarmReduction #DrugSky #HIV/AIDS #PublicHealth #naloxone #overdoseprevention #communityhealth

Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths Grassroots public health efforts and shifts in drug use have contributed to the sharp decline in overdose deaths. truthout.org/articles/exp...

The House of Representatives just moved forward with deep cuts to Medicaid—the largest payer of substance use disorder treatment in the country. Tell President Trump & Congress to preserve funding for addiction treatment and health services: engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/take-...

#publicserviceannouncement #harmreduction #endingstigma #savelives

We all want to protect the people we care about. As Mother’s Day approaches, people who've lost family to overdose honor loved ones with a new open letter urging Trump & Congress to save lives with health solutions. Check it out & share to stand with them drugpolicy.org/news/700-fam...

Guess what? #VaccinesWork. They protect us against more than 30 deadly diseases. Choose science, choose health. #HumanlyPossible