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Epidemiologist; Research scientist and associate professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Nations; Working to improve the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs.
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RIP. highly recommend ?uestlove’s documentary on sly stone if you haven’t seen it www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

submitted 6 hours ago • 62 comments

Yes, I am once again that guy asking us to please not invoke drug-related idioms/ metaphors/ insults to describe the current fascism

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Remember that the hair-trigger resort to violence against peaceful protest and ridiculous array of military gear we see in LA today is yet another malignant result of the drug war.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

I love Mexican art so much

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 2 days ago • 1144 comments

it’s time to replace all doctors with ai

submitted 5 days ago • 145 comments

Alberta is the involuntary treatment capital of Canada. On episode 54, we meet Angie & her son Brandon. When Brandon got wired as a teen, Angie had a difficult choice to make: should she force him to sober up? If she did, what would happen to their relationship? www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

"While the B.C. government is beginning to use involuntary commitment... Fowler said there should be greater emphasis on providing compassionate and effective care from the earliest possible point." Every involuntary commitment is a failure of the existing system of mental health care.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 9 days ago • 463 comments

Yes, everyone’s survival function is zero given a long enough timeline. (HT my clinical epi prof.) Only ghouls say that is a reason to eliminate healthcare for poor children and adults.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

submitted 13 days ago • 227 comments

The costs of drug prohibition are paid in blood

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Drug overdose deaths directly attributable to cannabis = zero journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

More than one-third of decedents did not have a substance use disorder at the time of death. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It’s really incredible how unifying of a theme it is in the specific actions this administration is taking that are going to make Americans have so much more diarrhea

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

But they’re not even treating the root causes, are they? At least not in substance use, where the harms (eg, dependence, poisoning, blood-borne pathogens) are rooted in drug prohibition, poverty, racism, and stigma

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

A better Q: why is it illegal in the first place?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments