
Jordy Laks
@jordanalaks
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Internal Med and Addiction Med doc @the_BMC and @BHCHP. Passion for harm reduction and fighting stigma.
Boston, MA
Joined March 2020
RT @ZoeWeinstein: After 2 wks on #AddictionMedicine consult I’m tired but my cup is full. A Sat AM 📟 made me 😊. A VIP pt is back and safe!….
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RT @WBUR: Mel King, lifelong civil rights activist and leader in Boston, has died. The 94-year-old was hailed as 'ambassador-like" and a "v….
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In a city that touts its history as a temporary home to two giants of the Civil Rights Movement, Mel King was 100% home-grown: a tireless organizer against apartheid and multiple wars, and in favor...
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RT @ZoeWeinstein: Amazing Theresa Rolley CARC from @The_BMC @GraykenBMC addiction consult during @AMERSA_tweets plenary calling out t….
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RT @CourtWatchMA: This first case of the day, which finished being heard around ~12:45 PM, was *yet another* case of a Black man in jail co….
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RT @blittle86: I’m grateful to have my first op-ed published in the @BostonGlobe today. It’s about community at #MassAndCass. I humbly ask….
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RT @jacquelinetchu: “We will never be able to arrest our way out of the overdose epidemic or the tragedy of rampant homelessness. Experienc….
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Drug addiction and homelessness should be addressed as public health issues, not crimes.
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RT @JoeWrightMD: The importance of understanding medicine as a system of social control is that it helps explain why healthcare has been a….
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RT @RepPressley: We can’t bring George Floyd back, but we can & we must legislate to dismantle the systems that create the conditions for….
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RT @davida_schiff: In no other maternal condition do we consider compliance with the @ACOGAction + @ASAMorg recommendations to be an indica….
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RT @The_BMC: In honor of #InternationalMigrantsDay, BMC’s @SKimballMD, co-director of @BMC_IRHC, will be speaking at @MassGeneralNews #Immi….
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RT @CourtWatchMA: DOC confirmed case counts at MCI-Norfolk were 140 on Friday. Incarcerated people say the count passed 160 this weekend a….
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RT @RepPressley: Decarceration is the only way to stop the spread of COVID-19 in prisons & jails and protect the health of folks behind the….
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By March, officials expect to have reduced the state’s prison population by about 35 percent since the start of the pandemic.
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RT @wburdebbecker: 140 cases at MCI Norfolk, More COVID-19 Cases In Shirley
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Like the rest of Massachusetts, there are increased cases of the coronavirus in state correctional facilities, including 140 prisoners who have now tested positive at the Massachusetts Correctional...
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RT @BerniceKing: To those who must now go on without your loved ones who died from #COVID19:. They did not die because they weren’t “tough.….
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RT @NicoleHerbst2: All the patients I’ve seen suffer for weeks on every type of life support. All the times I’ve stood sweating in PPE hold….
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RT @RashidaTlaib: Did I hear that correctly? Only one officer is being held remotely accountable, and it's not for killing Breonna Taylor b….
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