#Pwud

1) The results of poor policy making & approach to addressing the #OverdoseCrisis "Although fewer opioids are being prescribed, U.S. drug overdose deaths have reached record levels, driven largely by
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BTW: I live by a harm reduction/suboxone clinic w narcan & testing kits. If u have no access, whether uve used or not or if youre straight edge, know opiate
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Thread: So around 20 years ago i did my first ever #police #input in Newcastle using my #LivedExperience to #educate #Cops, im really pleased to be heading back to @northumbriapol
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Psychoactive Drug Pleasure: Ask a drug user why they started/kept using & you’ll likely hear: I liked it. Why do we struggle to talk about drugs & pleasure in the
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[1]We need MAT for people who are dependent on benzos, we need to give out more harm reduction wrt to GABAergics esp benzos. The withdrawal is so deadly, drs can
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Nobody working in #harmreduction will argue efforts/resources should start and stop at Supervised Consumption Services. Premier @jkenney continues to choose ideology over evidence on this file. Defunding SCS simply means
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Starting in 2016 Ontario began a $9.5 mil rollout of body scanners to "keep drugs out" of jail. This did not "keep drugs out" (nothing will) & unlike in other
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The #VPD are terrible at their jobs. I just got put in handcuffs while buzzing into my house because I "matched a description". Fine, whatever. The problem is their shitty
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THREADearlier this week, our surveillance swabbing program picked up 20+ new #covid19 cases in #HamOnt shelters. The 3 men’s shelters are now closed to new admissions. Spaces at the overflow
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Alright going to attempt to live tweet my last session at @csam_smca : A How To Guide: Trainee EngagmentModerated by a familiar face, my co-resident and all around rockstar Dr
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1/14 #MedTwitter: The ED pages you for an admission: a 24-year-old male with a history of IVDU presenting with fever. How do you take his drug history? 2/14 As a
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A lot of really important and interesting myth-busting studies, articles, and papers have been released lately about people who sell drugs. Here's a thread highlighting them and some key themes
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As a young researcher in the field of HIV and AIDS, I am uniquely positioned to bring attention to the recent season of the Netflix Original: 13 Reasons Why (originally
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New publication alert!Delighted to share this paper describing our team's love & sweat over the past few years Our hospital didn’t have an addiction medicine consultation service, so us trainees
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