Esther Chung

S.F.’s response to drug dealing could lead to more overdoses A new study suggests drug seizures lead to more overdoses. Should this change SF’s approach to the crisis on our streets?

NEW for @sfchronicle.com: A study dropped today showing that in San Francisco, overdoses increase in areas where police have seized drugs. We're seeing this in real time: As law enforcement efforts have ramped up in recent months, fatal overdoses have risen. That's not a coincidence. (gift link)

Housing assistance among people who are unstably housed and use drugs in Oregon: a cross-sectional study Unstable housing has tremendous harms on health and well-being and people who use drug experience significant barriers to housing. The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of housi...

Our new study in BMC Public Health found a large gap in housing assistance for people who use drugs (PWUD). 94% of PWUD in Oregon experienced unstable housing and among these, only 31% obtained housing assistance.

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Excited to introduce Thoughtcrime Checker! This simple text editor highlights any words on the Trump administration's "banned" list. Remove these words from your NSF/NIH grants and see if you can avoid the Thought Police!
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list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

#harmreduction #druguse #NSSSP

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Thanks to @rti.bsky.social and coauthors: Sheila Patel Lynn Wenger Jamie Humphrey Amang Sukasih @rnbluthenthal.bsky.social Hansel Tookes Don DesJarlais Sara Glick Paul Lakosky Stephanie Prohaska Laura Guzman @alexkral.bsky.social @barrotlambdin.bsky.social

Association of safer smoking supply distribution with participant encounters and naloxone distribution from syringe services programs: Findings from the National Survey of Syringe Services Programs in... In response to the recent and growing shift from injecting heroin to smoking fentanyl, an increasing number of syringe services programs (SSPs) in the…

Our new study found 44% of syringe services programs (SSPs) distributed safer smoking supplies in 2022. SSPs distributing supplies had more participant encounters and naloxone distribution. Safer smoking supplies are a key tool to connect people who use drugs to life-saving services.