The FDA noted anecdotal reports of "patients who thought the disposal system was a separate medication that should be ingested," or "bags not sealing appropriately and foaming out before the bag could be resealed."
“It’s a message to the public ... It doesn’t affect the markets and it doesn’t affect the groups. They adapt.”
Latin American experts explain how the US-Ecuador "affinity" is "serving to reproduce cycles of violence."
@tganeva.bsky.social reports:
"As part of a consent decree ... the state was banned from building new state-run psychiatric hospitals. In February 2026, the federal government terminated the consent decree and remaining settlement provisions."
“It’s a message to the public ... It doesn’t affect the markets and it doesn’t affect the groups. They adapt.”
Latin American experts explain how the US-Ecuador "affinity" is "serving to reproduce cycles of violence."
@tganeva.bsky.social reports:
"County jails are the de facto mental health institutions, housing anyone too disabled or too poor to land anywhere else. Republican senators now say that it’s Georgia’s jails, rather than its citizens, that have been unduly burdened."
“The only thing that is clear is that they don’t know what they intend to do other than ban stuff.”
Failing on its smoking-cessation target, the government announces a bill with new vape restrictions, potentially including a total flavor ban.
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social:
"County jails are the de facto mental health institutions, housing anyone too disabled or too poor to land anywhere else. Republican senators now say that it’s Georgia’s jails, rather than its citizens, that have been unduly burdened."
“The only thing that is clear is that they don’t know what they intend to do other than ban stuff.”
Failing on its smoking-cessation target, the government announces a bill with new vape restrictions, potentially including a total flavor ban.
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social:
"A look at who was appointed reveals that it’s stacked with methadone clinic operatives and defenders," writes
@helenredmond.bsky.social.
"How can anyone believe that the beneficiaries of the carceral methadone clinic system can be the ones to fix it?"
"Data like this don’t just reflect changes in the drug supply, but also changes in patterns of drug use. Someone can have more than one substance in their system at the time that they died, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they were consumed together."
"A look at who was appointed reveals that it’s stacked with methadone clinic operatives and defenders," writes
@helenredmond.bsky.social.
"How can anyone believe that the beneficiaries of the carceral methadone clinic system can be the ones to fix it?"
"Data like this don’t just reflect changes in the drug supply, but also changes in patterns of drug use. Someone can have more than one substance in their system at the time that they died, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they were consumed together."
New Hampshire residents want legalization; the House has repeatedly passed bills. But there's opposition in the Senate and from the governor.
“We know where it’s going to go,” the sponsor had said. “Let them be the ones that are pissing off voters who care about this.”
Kyle Jaeger reports:
"[W]e will continue to operate ... in places that aren't as safe. We’ll be in canal paths and vacant lots instead of a well-lit, maintained place that's accessible to public transit and for people with disabilities. We'll be pushed further out into the margins to places where maybe it's dangerous."
New Hampshire residents want legalization; the House has repeatedly passed bills. But there's opposition in the Senate and from the governor.
“We know where it’s going to go,” the sponsor had said. “Let them be the ones that are pissing off voters who care about this.”
Kyle Jaeger reports:
"While there are some notable differences between cychlorphine and the various fentanyl analogs and nitazenes that have previously been the 'next killer drug,' in this case some of the warnings appear due to a mixup."
Phoenix's ban on harm reduction services in parks, though delayed, is already impacting participants, city harm reductionists tell Alexander Lekhtman.
“We’re not going to let ourselves be pushed out of our community just because of some nosy neighbors.”
"While there are some notable differences between cychlorphine and the various fentanyl analogs and nitazenes that have previously been the 'next killer drug,' in this case some of the warnings appear due to a mixup."
Phoenix's ban on harm reduction services in parks, though delayed, is already impacting participants, city harm reductionists tell Alexander Lekhtman.
“We’re not going to let ourselves be pushed out of our community just because of some nosy neighbors.”
"Nine officers at South Central, the CoreCivic prison rapidly overtaking Trousdale Turner as the most violent in Tennessee, told Filter they are in favor of body cameras. The only person against the idea seems to be Commissioner Strada."
"Wisconsin lawmakers need to do more to reduce a smoking rate that causes almost 8,000 annual deaths, says the American Lung Association. But its prescription involves reducing access to safer substitutes for deadly cigarettes."
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social reports:
"Nine officers at South Central, the CoreCivic prison rapidly overtaking Trousdale Turner as the most violent in Tennessee, told Filter they are in favor of body cameras. The only person against the idea seems to be Commissioner Strada."
"Wisconsin lawmakers need to do more to reduce a smoking rate that causes almost 8,000 annual deaths, says the American Lung Association. But its prescription involves reducing access to safer substitutes for deadly cigarettes."
@kiransidhu41.bsky.social reports:
Other than these five, and a benzo-anesthetic that’s only approved for veterinary use, every other benzodiazepine in the Controlled Substances Act is in Schedule IV.
-“This kind of action doesn’t serve its stated purpose and instead creates infighting within and between violent groups jockeying for market control.”
-"Fractures among non-state actors can lead to the takeover of other markets.”
@tganeva.bsky.social reports:
Other than these five, and a benzo-anesthetic that’s only approved for veterinary use, every other benzodiazepine in the Controlled Substances Act is in Schedule IV.
Georgia “One Strike Act”: Even More Life Sentences, Even Less Parole
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-“This kind of action doesn’t serve its stated purpose and instead creates infighting within and between violent groups jockeying for market control.”
-"Fractures among non-state actors can lead to the takeover of other markets.”
@tganeva.bsky.social reports:
