🧵 (1/22) Howdy folks. As some of you may have already seen, an article was recently published in @TheEconomist claiming to have evidence that “America’s Syringe Exchanges Kill Drug Users”. Well, I think it’s time we looked into this a bit more.

RT @CDUHR_NYC: Pittsburgh harm reduction experts: stronger overdose reversal drugs aren't better.“You just want to make sure they're breath….

RT @TracieMGardner: Thanks @noahweiland for including me in this @nytimes @NYTHealth piece on the race inequities underlying the national….

RT @AIDSUnited: Ready to flex💪🏽your power on #ElectionDay? . The HIV community has the chance to demand that our elected officials SHOW UP….

RT @Barrett_W_M: Excited to share that a guide we developed on how to monitor and evaluate opioid settlement funded initiatives is now avai….

RT @stephenHRNRP: If you are looking for something to do - here is a go fund me for her wife, Deanna, and their son who was born 2 days ago….

RT @StefanKertesz: A new consensus statement says that high dose (and costly) Naloxone products are not justifiable. They state: . A) tak….

RT @el_sabawi: If you ever have found yourself thinking that forcing people into substance use treatment is a good idea— I invite you to re….

RT @MorganGodvin: Prop 36 is polling like it’s going to pass in a landslide. It increases the penalty for drug possession to 3 years in pri….

RT @DrugPolicyOrg: Housing helps people build stable lives. But an amendment to the Fair Housing Act currently excludes people with drug se….

RT @stephenHRNRP: As an overdose survivor, responder, researcher and program implementer, I want to know what our elected leaders plan to d….

RT @CDUHR_NYC: Why drug overdose deaths are dropping fast: A Q&A with Dr. Daliah Heller.

RT @coreysdavis: One of the biggest open secrets among the drug policy community is that the DEA knows essentially nothing about the local….

Hope has not been easy to access in recent years, but dramatic drops in overdose deaths across the country give us reason to hope. and to increase investment in programs that get PWUD naloxone, MAT, clean syringes, and access to treatment.

RT @andreasereda: Involuntary, abstinence based treatment doesn’t work. In the fentanyl era… it kills. In this study shared by @guyfelicell….

RT @DrugPolicyOrg: Blaming immigration for fentanyl is a distraction that won’t fix the US overdose crisis & it’s also untrue. Fentanyl dem….

In another recent revival from the 1980s that no one asked, JD Vance is falsely blaming non-existent rising HIV rates in Ohio on Haitian immigrants. It is especially evil for Vance to spread this lie given the long history of Haitians being discriminated against around HIV.

RT @AIDSUnited: Check out the latest article from The San Francisco AIDS Foundation.Harm Reduction: Promoting Health, Upholding Dignity, Sa….

RT @harmreduxlegal: Many thanks to @ACLUofColorado for taking on the Pueblo City Council! We were grateful to have had the opportunity to f….

RT @coreysdavis: Up to date info on the legality of fentanyl test strips and other drug checking equipment available from @harmreduxlegal.