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"Not touching the grass is something that's strictly enforced at every big yard in the state ... I have on multiple occasions seen three or four officers tackle someone who had stepped on the grass."

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“This drop does not mean the crisis is over," Shreeta Waldon of the Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition tells Alexander Lekhtman. "It means some of our strategies are working, and now is the time to really double down and not scale back.”

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“Instead of following the law to shutter Rikers by 2027, Mayor Adams has worked to keep Rikers open. During his administration, conditions at Rikers have worsened.” The remediation manager must work swiftly to reduce violence, save lives, & advance closure efforts. filtermag.org/judge-rikers...

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“This drop does not mean the crisis is over," Shreeta Waldon of the Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition tells Alexander Lekhtman. "It means some of our strategies are working, and now is the time to really double down and not scale back.”

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"A new survey of veterans and their families finds that a majority—57 percent—feel the VA should provide medical marijuana to eligible patients," reports @badlin.bsky.social:

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“Nobody thinks it’s a good idea,” Dave Webb, of the Surrey Union of Drug Users, tells @godfrey.bsky.social. “I thought in treatment we were supposed to reconnect with our loved ones and friends. If we’re putting somebody in segregation, how is that going to work?”

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"This is the only Tennessee prison with a miniyard, where we can touch grass. People housed at other facilities might get outdoor recreation time only once or twice a week. One hadn't had yard call in over a year."

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"A new survey of veterans and their families finds that a majority—57 percent—feel the VA should provide medical marijuana to eligible patients," reports @badlin.bsky.social:

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"This is the only Tennessee prison with a miniyard, where we can touch grass. People housed at other facilities might get outdoor recreation time only once or twice a week. One hadn't had yard call in over a year."

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"Over the three decades and change I’ve been in prison, I’ve seen time and again that as the years of captivity deepen many people come to view suicide not only as a means of becoming free, but as an act of resistance against the state."

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'A Brief History of LSD Treatment for Alcohol Addiction at the VA' | Filter via @drugwise.bsky.social filtermag.org/lsd-alcohol-...

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many questions about what the province could possibly be thinking, if anything at all, putting treatment in administrative segregation

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“Nobody thinks it’s a good idea,” Dave Webb, of the Surrey Union of Drug Users, tells @godfrey.bsky.social. “I thought in treatment we were supposed to reconnect with our loved ones and friends. If we’re putting somebody in segregation, how is that going to work?”

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"Around the same time I started getting 1,000-packs of MDMA pills from the Netherlands, DanceSafe came out with its first reagent test kits."

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"It would be much more right to support ppl in reducing harms in their lives rather than saying it’s all or nothing—either you stop or we don’t do anything for you." @kiransidhu41.bsky.social puts tobacco harm reduction questions to global health and philosophy lecturer Dr. Sridhar Venkatapuram:

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“It is a drastic and necessary measure to save lives," advocates said of the judge's historic decision to take control of Rikers away from the NYC government. Alexander Lekhtman reports:

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"The 2025 legislative session has seen multiple states attempt to authorize overdose prevention centers." "[A]t least four have continued to move forward and are currently in committee." "In at least two states, anti-OPC bills have advanced as well." #USA #Drugs

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"Around the same time I started getting 1,000-packs of MDMA pills from the Netherlands, DanceSafe came out with its first reagent test kits."

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“It is a drastic and necessary measure to save lives," advocates said of the judge's historic decision to take control of Rikers away from the NYC government. Alexander Lekhtman reports:

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"It would be much more right to support ppl in reducing harms in their lives rather than saying it’s all or nothing—either you stop or we don’t do anything for you." @kiransidhu41.bsky.social puts tobacco harm reduction questions to global health and philosophy lecturer Dr. Sridhar Venkatapuram:

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Research, with promising results, was widespread at VA hospitals and other institutions until the late 1960s, writes Kenneth Anderson. "We can blame moral panic for several wasted decades."

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“It’s perpetuating the criminalization of people despite the lack of shelter and housing ... it makes people sicker and some will die," @laurag64.bsky.social of National Harm Reduction Coalition tells Alexander Lekhtman, re Gov. Newsom's "model ordinance":

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"Over the three decades and change I’ve been in prison, I’ve seen time and again that as the years of captivity deepen many people come to view suicide not only as a means of becoming free, but as an act of resistance against the state."

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Research, with promising results, was widespread at VA hospitals and other institutions until the late 1960s, writes Kenneth Anderson. "We can blame moral panic for several wasted decades."

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re-upping - filtermag.org/new-york-cor...

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Arizona, meanwhile, has preemptively passed a ban on OPC even though no state legislators were proposing to open any.

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Pennsylvania's marijuana legalization bill, which passed the House on May 7, had a hybrid state-run model to which Republicans, who control the Senate, were heavily opposed. It was rejected by a Senate committee today, reports Alexander Lekhtman:

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"If you present [people who use drugs] as partners, you attract possibility, you attract resources. If you represent [people who use drugs] like a patient, you attract punishment ... you attract vulnerability, and you attract the stereotyping part of it."

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"I thought we learned from the Stanford Prison Experiment that college-age corrections officers are not a good idea." "If we can't keep prisons staffed, then perhaps we should incarcerate fewer people." #NewYork #USA #Incarceration

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Pennsylvania's marijuana legalization bill, which passed the House on May 7, had a hybrid state-run model to which Republicans, who control the Senate, were heavily opposed. It was rejected by a Senate committee today, reports Alexander Lekhtman:

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Arizona, meanwhile, has preemptively passed a ban on OPC even though no state legislators were proposing to open any.

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“It is time for PWUD to take leadership.” Policy progress amid leadership from the Global South—but funding crises and a stark need for inclusive participation in policymaking—were among takeaways from #HR25 in Bogotá, Colombia, reports Anna Wilcox:

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A handful of other states have already lowered the correction officer hiring age to 18 amid a nationwide understaffing crisis.

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Tony Vick just won 1st place in the Stillwater Awards/ Best News category for this Filter report: filtermag.org/corecivic-pr... Judges called it "a serious story that resonates well beyond the 14 adult prisons in TN." Congratulations, Tony 🙏 www.spj.org/stillwater-a...

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"If you and your stakeholders make money by keeping people in prison, why would you invest any resources into keeping them out of prison?" Higher recidivism is better for business for private prisons. Unsurprisingly, they're not interested in helping people reenter. filtermag.org/corecivic-pr...

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Introducing our wonderful #GFN25 media partner, Filter Magazine @filtermag.bsky.social! Advocating tirelessly for harm reduction and reporting extensively on global tobacco harm reduction efforts, you can check out their expert analysis at this link👉https://filtermag.org/

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“It is time for PWUD to take leadership.” Policy progress amid leadership from the Global South—but funding crises and a stark need for inclusive participation in policymaking—were among takeaways from #HR25 in Bogotá, Colombia, reports Anna Wilcox:

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A handful of other states have already lowered the correction officer hiring age to 18 amid a nationwide understaffing crisis.

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The governor's plan would have regulated cannabis "like alcohol"—most Wisconsinites support this—but GOP lawmakers have repeated their actions of 2023. There's still some hope for medical marijuana this session, reports Ben Adlin:

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If the court grants approval, payouts to people who were held at the notorious "Workhouse" jail will begin in months. "The progress we made by closing the Workhouse is something to double down on," Blake Strode of ArchCity Defenders, which launched the lawsuit, tells Alexander Lekhtman:

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“The feet on the ground with people driving out there with Narcan in their cars doing these trainings, that will be severely compromised.” Across the US, overdose prevention has been part of AmeriCorps volunteers' work, now under severe threat, reports Alexander Lekhtman:

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"Former re-entry clerks described staff saying the ID-printing machine was broken when it was farther than they'd wanted to walk, and pushing to forge prisoner signatures on paperwork saying they'd been offered help but didn't want it."

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If the court grants approval, payouts to people who were held at the notorious "Workhouse" jail will begin in months. "The progress we made by closing the Workhouse is something to double down on," Blake Strode of ArchCity Defenders, which launched the lawsuit, tells Alexander Lekhtman:

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New York City's stance "protects the combustible cigarette trade by kneecapping its safer competitors," writes Martin Cullip. NYC supports harm reduction in other areas, "but when it comes to nicotine, the city discards that logic entirely."

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"Former re-entry clerks described staff saying the ID-printing machine was broken when it was farther than they'd wanted to walk, and pushing to forge prisoner signatures on paperwork saying they'd been offered help but didn't want it."

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“The feet on the ground with people driving out there with Narcan in their cars doing these trainings, that will be severely compromised.” Across the US, overdose prevention has been part of AmeriCorps volunteers' work, now under severe threat, reports Alexander Lekhtman:

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A lovely memorial to a truly generous person: Long Hair Dave, an icon in Olympia, WA, and a founder of that city's chapter of Books to Prisoners. Thank you, @filtermag.bsky.social. filtermag.org/remembering-...

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‘Burlington Plans to Open Vermont’s First Overdose Prevention Center’ “We’ve been preparing for several years in the hopes this legislation would go through and we would be selected.” filtermag.org/burlington-o...

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mesmo o cuidado antiproibicionista pode acabar comunicando ideias proibicionistas. aqui distrinchando a campanha global "apoie, não castigue", a maioria dos usuários não precisa de apoio no sentido paternalista, precisa é de legalização filtermag.org/support-dont...

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