I'm honored to be a finalist at the The de Groot Foundation for my WIP, a literary thriller about the underbelly of private equity in healthcare. Stay tuned... degrootfoundation.org/melody-glenn/

Tucson: I highly recommend this event at Antigone Books at 4pm today. Journalist & author John Washington will discuss his new book The Case for Open Borders. Melissa del Bosque from the Border Chronicle will be there too!

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She's getting a theatrical release! See you all December 6, with popcorn.

Next week, join NAEMSP and Prodigy EMS for Part 2 of The Essential Role of EMS in Addiction Medicine. You'll hear from Jose G. Cabañas MD, MPH and Melody Glenn, MD MFA about opportunities to save lives and improve outcomes for patients who use drugs.

Learn more and register: bit.ly/4aHoDJM

Sunday is both Easter and Trans Day of Visibility which means BEHOLD! THE LORD HAS TRANSITIONED FROM DEAD TO ALIVE! JESUS’S PRONOUNS ARE HE/LIVES!

Idaho has just repealed the law that permitted syringe services programs to operate in the state. AFAIK no state has *ever* gone backwards on this incredibly important issue. This is serious, folks. From CA to WV and many places in between, SSPs are under attack.

“El Dorado is among a growing number of California communities that have banned syringe programs, testing the state’s power and political will to defend them as a public health strategy. It is part of a broader pushback against “harm reduction” “ latimes.com/california/sto…

The Drug War was pivotal to SB 4 happening.

The fentanyl panic - erroneously tied to migrants - gave this legislation serious traction in Texas.

There is no need for first-responder nalmefene, and if our organizations are making policies that affect people who use drugs, we need to make sure they have a seat at the table

It was honor to be a part of AZ Department of Health's naloxone campaign. With naloxone, increased access to buprenorphine & methadone, and overdose prevention centers, fatal overdose can be prevented. Nobody should have to die. youtu.be/p6Mn18xehDw

I had a pt who dropped a cheap crack pipe on their leg and suffered a burn and infection when it broke. They asked me for the stronger stems from Smoke Works which I had for them. Harm reduction, including smoking supplies, belong in all our clinics and hospitals 🙏

Exciting day for me & @[email protected]! Our book on the social roots of youth #suicide is available for pre-order at Oxford University Press...w a pub date of April 4, 2024!

(funded by American Foundation for Suicide Prevention; of interest to American Association of Suicidology Jonathan Singer 🎙️ Indiana University Research Irsay Institute)

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Methadone clinics say their rules are meant to protect patients. But with over 80,000 Americans dying of opioid overdose each year, public health experts say they need to change their restrictive culture. Part 2 of The War on Recovery: trib.al/owM9tN7 🧵

A 50-year-old law limits many Americans’ access to addiction treatment that is right for them.  To learn more about pending legislation to reform methadone access, click here:  asam.org/advocacy/natio…

Happiest of pub days to Margaret Juhae Lee 이주혜’s Starry Field and Grace Loh Prasad 駱信惠’s The Translator’s Daughter, memoirs about the search for family history, home, and belonging.

“But a yearlong investigation by STAT shows that virtually every sector of American society is obstructing the use of medications that could prevent tens of thousands of deaths each year.” statnews.com/2024/03/05/opi… via STAT

the friends, lovers and activists of the deceased often wanted to say their loved one had died of AIDS, and wanted to honor their death in explicit, often angry ways.

This is what our overlapping low dose buprenorphine initiation blisterpack looks like. We work with a local mom and pop pharmacy. This is our outpatient 7 day protocol to transition off fentanyl, heroin, methadone and onto buprenorphine-naloxone 🙏💕pharmacists

Creative nonfiction writers be like:

I first ate a hotdog when I was six years old. I remember the taste, the scent, the summer.

SECTION BREAK

Hot dogs were invented in 1693 by Steven Hotdog. According to Scientific American, the hotdog is

Hospital administrators talking to physicians after they sell out to private equity