Keith Humphreys
@KeithNHumphreys
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Esther Ting Memorial Professor at Stanford University. Public policy advisor, film buff, and native of West by God Virginia. Tweets are my personal opinions.
Stanford, CA
Joined November 2013
In this life Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
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Not surprised that Republicans in the House and Senate are fighting alongside Democrats for the NIH. Across the political spectrum, cancer is just really unpopular.
thehill.com
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and 13 other Senate Republicans are urging the Trump administration to release National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding that has been held up for months. The GOP senato…
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RT @BradWilcoxIFS: My latest for @TheAtlantic: "Divorce is down and the share of children in two-parent families is up. Marriage as a socia….
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RT @FSIStanford: "Addiction is a chronic problem that requires follow-up, coordination, and work by the patient and the system. We do it ev….
neuroscience.stanford.edu
In which addiction expert Keith Humphreys explains how neuroscience is reshaping our understanding of substance abuse—and why policy still hasn’t caught up.
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I am surprised by this. But the data are the data .
nytimes.com
Rigorous new research appears to show that monthly checks intended to help disadvantaged children did little for their well-being, adding a new element to a dispute over expanded government aid.
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RT @CSElmendorf: - Should cities defund police, and/or disable police from monitoring potentially criminal activity? . The equilibrium thin….
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Ryne Sandberg ieft us too soon. With simple decency, great respect, and love of family he gave a beautiful Hall of Fame induction speech. RIP. via @YouTube.
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Some misread Trump's Executive Order on homelessness, addiction, and mental illness as a fringe view, but most urban dwellers sympathize. They're tired of spending billions to hear they have to accept open drug use, disorder, and homeless encampments.
seattletimes.com
Homelessness is at a record high locally and nationally. King County recorded 16,868 homeless people in its 2024 Point-in-Time Count. Nationally, 771,480 were homeless.
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RT @RecoveryDoctor: @KeithNHumphreys @ethanvarian Here's a link to the Times-Herald for the same piece that can be accessed: .
timesheraldonline.com
In some areas, more people are dying of methamphetamines than fentanyl.
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If you ever feel tempted to say the phrase "Black and Brown voters", dunk your head in ice water until the urge passes.
latimes.com
New data from the Pew Research Center shows that 48% of Latinos voted for President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, a 12% jump from 2020.
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RT @Annemarieward: 📢 NEW RESEARCH: FROM @KeithNHumphreys Peer Support in Recovery Works And It’s Free. Imagine walking into a room where….
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One of those obits that falls into the "Good grief he was still alive?" category. Lived almost a century. RIP.
thetimes.com
Delightfully devilish performer who revelled in writing tongue-twisting songs of discerning bad taste while studying maths at Harvard, dies aged 97
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I spoke with @ethanvarian about rising overdose deaths in the SF Bay Area .ttps://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/28/bay-area-overdose-deaths-fentanyl-meth/.
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Clear sign of exclusionary sexism in the homeless industry
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Powerful account of how drug policy is failing in Seattle.
seattletimes.com
Leaving people too impaired to make rational judgements about their own well-being is not compassion; it is neglect. A City Council proposal could help.
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This is social contagion, a problem spreading across the US, UK, and Canada. If we want downtowns, if we want people to shop in person and not just order everything on line, we have to take shoplifting more seriously.
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RT @KeithNHumphreys: 1, If young women are moving left politically and men right, and.2. Young women insist on political agreement in marri….
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RT @wkepner: “Lots of Americans across the political spectrum are fed up with homelessness disorder and public drug use,” Humphreys said. “….
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I talked with @DavidOvalle305 about the Executive Order on homelessness and open air drug scenes. This is not an area where the federal government has much power, but the order will resonate with the widespread frustration around the country.
washingtonpost.com
Trump’s executive order could increase hospitalization of homeless individuals with mental health and substance use disorders.
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If you listen to medical researchers talk, you would think they greatly value replication studies. But if you look through the pages of leading medical journals, you will realize they don't.
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No contradiction, any one data point in one year can co-occur with big long term trends in other directions. Homicides in Los Angeles are at 60 year low. doesn't mean car thefts aren't up in Connecticut.
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