NEW for @sfchronicle.com: A study dropped today showing that in San Francisco, overdoses increase in areas where police have seized drugs. We're seeing this in real time: As law enforcement efforts have ramped up in recent months, fatal overdoses have risen. That's not a coincidence. (gift link)

Our new study in BMC Public Health found a large gap in housing assistance for people who use drugs (PWUD). 94% of PWUD in Oregon experienced unstable housing and among these, only 31% obtained housing assistance. @morgangodvin.bsky.social @barrotlambdin.bsky.social @alexkral.bsky.social

Excited to introduce Thoughtcrime Checker! This simple text editor highlights any words on the Trump administration's "banned" list. Remove these words from your NSF/NIH grants and see if you can avoid the Thought Police! brad7280.github.io/thoughtcrime... @theo.io @xkcd.com @byscottdance.com

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Our new study found 44% of syringe services programs (SSPs) distributed safer smoking supplies in 2022. SSPs distributing supplies had more participant encounters and naloxone distribution. Safer smoking supplies are a key tool to connect people who use drugs to life-saving services.