Day 1 install! Huge thanks to NC Collaboratory and NC General Assembly for supporting a dedicated GCMS to allow us to understand what’s in the street drug supply. Opioid Settlement funds for drug checking is a no-brainer. General Erin Organa Colin Miller & team

Breaking my Twitter hiatus to share we reached ONE MILLION NALOXONE DOSES distributed since we started in 2017!!! 🎉

…with the vast majority ending up in the hands of those most likely to be at the scene when it happens (people who use drugs)

We are excited to have Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta of UNC Injury Prevention Research Center joining us at the #SAVIR2024 annual conference as a keynote speaker.

Join us in Chapel Hill, NC from April 15-17th to hear his thoughts on the field of injury & violence prevention research. Register today buff.ly/42TYAfr

Disability, discrimination in healthcare is crucial to ending the overdose crisis from Sara Harrington and Sally Friedman
ncnewsline.com/2024/02/26/fig…

Remember: SAMHSAs rules set the precedent for the lowest level of restrictions around take homes, upon which SOTA’s and OTPs can ADD restrictions.

They need to set a CEILING, stopping OTPs from keeping people daily dosing for years for the sake of profit

filtermag.org/samhsa-methado…

Locker room was lit 🗣️

DEA starting Black History Month with a ‘throwback Thursday’ that should remind everyone they were founded by racists with the intention of systemically oppressing and harming people of color in the US and around the world harpers.org/archive/2016/0…

My synthesis and topic organization from an incredible 2 days National Academies on #harmreduction research needs

Nice shout out to Claire Zagorski, MSc, LP from #NIDA director!!

Pretty humbled to participate tomorrow in a conversation National Academies around harm reduction with amazing Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta and other incredible researchers

Presenting live saving community work done with Verter AC PrevenCasa under extreme conditions in Mexico

Join us if you can!

Many harm reduction folks (incl. Scott Burris Ricky Bluthenthal Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta @havenwheelock @alexanderwalley @traciemgardner Raagini Jawa MD, MPH, FASAM) will be presenting at this first of its kind National Academies meeting. Consider dropping by if you can!

Deeply honored to be one of the recipients of the inaugural Research Excellence Award from UNC Public Health UNC Gillings Research!

2023 was busy: 13 publications, co-lead in graduate course, major grant submitted, national fellowship.

sph.unc.edu/sph-news/8-pub…

After a nearly two year saga, that paper that claimed to find an association between drug-induced homicide laws and fatal overdose has been retracted. Thanks to all the folks who worked to make it happen! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD Leo Beletsky

📢Don't miss the second #DrugChecking interview at Reform Conference, where Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 🇺🇸explained some extremely interesting aspects to enhance Drug Checking projects.

youtube.com/watch?v=lal_Uz…

New episode of Factually is live: Why Fentanyl is Suddenly Everywhere with Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta

Check it out! youtu.be/hXP0IZYE6aA

Amazing to see Louise Beale NCSU - North Carolina Survivors Union repping drug user unions on the national stage. So inspiring!

Great story by Brian Mann NPR

npr.org/2023/11/19/121…

In 2 weeks!

Join us for a webinar with Ryan McNeil on how to publish qualitative research on substance use!

Date: Nov 28th
4-5:30pm EST

Register: bit.ly/Nov23Webinar

This listening session with NIDA Director Nora Volkow is TOMORROW, 10/19, 3:30 pm MST/local time, in Agave at the conference site hotel. All people with lived/living experience of drug use interested in research @ #Reform23 , pls join us!

In this podcast, Alfredo Morabia, the editor of the AJPH, walks us through the paradox of police drug enforcement, which can actually increase overdoses. It was great to be in conversation with him, Dr. Vickie Mays, Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, and Lisa Daugaard.
youtube.com/watch?v=hQlwfu…