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FYI - I am on the other blue app at the same handle and will try and post more. But I will not be leaving Twitter. For over 14 years, I shared thoughts, musings, and extensive threads that I've been told have impacted many. I don't want to lose them. They'll be here.
Honored to be on the host committee of @HarmReduction's NYC 30th Anniversary Party on Nov 6th at House of Yes. Buy your earlybird tix: donorbox.org/events/967145/s…
NEXT WEEK 10/22 10am: I will be speaking on an informative panel in Burlington VT about the need for public health approaches to substance use and overdose. Register docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Hey New Jersey! A fantastic harm reduction documentary about the Never Use Alone hotline is screening at the Montclair Film Festival on October 18th at 2pm.
Get your ticket: festival.montclairfilm.org/e…
So proud to have moderated this important UN General Assembly Side Event last week - the war on drugs is a war on poverty.
As long as we criminalize people, we will lock them into a cycle of harm without truly helping to uplift them and improve their material conditions.
At #UNGA event "Beyond Criminalization" we heard key lessons from affected communities & health and drug policy experts from Mexico, Switzerland & more.
Thanks to @YouthRISE for highlighting the impact on young people, and to @HelenClarkNZ for her inspiring words.
@OpenSociety
Honored to be included in this great lineup of interviewees for the upcoming FREE Virtual Harm Reduction Summit from Oct 5th to Oct 9th. Register to join us wisepartners.therapywisdom.c…
The audiobook for The Harm Reduction Gap is on super-sale for 60% off! Order a copy now audiobooks.com/promotions/pr…
Thrilled to share that my co-authored commentary on overdose declines has been published in the International Journal of Drug Policy - download here sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
“What you see already is the immediate and extremely dangerous policy of bombing regions without even showing any pretense of evidence that you’re actually hurting the drug trade.” salon.com/2026/03/31/trumps-…
The overdose crisis is shrinking — and mutating axios.com/2026/02/20/overdos…
I'm quoted here- check it out
Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
Local police are desperate to get you to think they aren't ICE, while they brutalize demonstrators and criminalize the poor. Don't believe the #Copaganda.
Appealing to imagined reforms, center-left media tastemakers assure their audiences DHS violence exists outside the otherwise progressive status quo: by @adamjohnsonCHI
therealnews.com/us-media-def…
Devastating. Infuriating. Murderous.
These cruel funding cuts will destroy grassroots and treatment programs that are providing vital life-saving services to people who use drugs and those with addictions. npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-567…
Really excited for this new Congressional briefing series hosted by the Addiction Science Defense Network- Register to join their first session on January 13th 2:30-4pm EDT and share with your member of Congress so we can preserve federal funding! npscoalition.org/congression…
Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
By using AI for writing, you’re robbing yourself of the authentic writer’s experience of not writing
"The expansion of coca cultivation is a direct
driver of deforestation in the Andean valleys
and the Colombian Amazon." - Learn more about how illegal coca cultivation and the drug war are driving climate and environmental disaster reformrestorerecover.org/evi…
Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
The researchers found that 87% of people who inject drugs in Baltimore would support programs providing access to regulated drugs, in order to protect participants from the adulterated street supply.
Read my latest for @Filtermag_org 🔽
filtermag.org/baltimore-drug…
Researchers surveyed 300 people who inject drugs in Baltimore, and found overwhelming support for the introduction of safe supply (highest among most vulnerable demographics) plus specific preferences for how it should operate.
@LoganHullinger reports:
filtermag.org/baltimore-drug…
Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
the most under-appreciated local government success over the past three years? it’s actually Baltimore imo
-murders down 60%
-major pro-housing reforms including ending parking mandates, legalizing single-stair buildings, and permitting denser housing
Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
Police contact of any kind is not innocuous: most police killings start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported.
ALT Infographic that says in 2023, 70% of police killings began with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime had been reported.
I actually really love the idea of over-the-counter naltrexone for alcohol use. It helps people to gradually reduce and moderate their drinking on their own terms.
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