MUTUAL AID REQUEST Delaney is trying to rebuild after living through -- and then leaving -- domestic violence. Now, she's essentially homeless and starting over from nothing. This is my friend's cousin, the GoFundMe is legit and 100% goes to her. To share is to support: gofund.me/4506b64cd

Donate to Help Delaney Rebuild After Domestic Violence, organized by Gillian Graham

We’re raising money to help our dear cousin Delaney as she struggles to co… Gillian Graham needs your support for Help Delaney Rebuild After Domestic Violence

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Tomorrow 10am PST/1pm EST I'm speaking at @amersa.org with several other folks on involuntary commitment and treatment. amersa.org/project/amer...

AMERSA Advocacy Webinar - AMERSA

AMERSA, founded in 1976, is a non-profit professional organization whose mission is to improve health and well-being through interdisciplinary leadership in substance use education, research, clinical...

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I urge you to be precise with your language when sharing information about kratom and derivatives. We need regulation but not blanket bans. bsky.app/profile/morg...

Morgan Godvin@morgangodvin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Kratom is not the same thing as 7-Oh. Kratom = plant, safe, long used. 7Oh = lab-made with deceptive marketing, causing unwitting physical dependencies. Read about the differences here, backed by data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

On this edition of Century: The Math of Fentanyl - my conversation with @morgangodvin.bsky.social kboo.fm/media/133979... #SupportPublicMedia #SupportCommunityRadio #SupportKBOO

The Math of Fentanyl

On this edition of Century: The Math of Fentanyl. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Morgan Godvin, a researcher, writer, harm reduction advocate, and co-author an article entitled “Estimati...

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Kratom is not the same thing as 7-Oh. Kratom = plant, safe, long used. 7Oh = lab-made with deceptive marketing, causing unwitting physical dependencies. Read about the differences here, backed by data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Kratom poisonings soar in US as experts blame synthetic versions and caution against bans

Experts say natural kratom may offer benefits and blame synthetic derivatives for surge in poisonings noted by CDC

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Normalize taking methadone at the United Nations! The 69th Commission on Narcotic Drugs has wrapped. The US is still being the US. International diplomacy is incredible and very far from obsolete. It may save us yet. PS - Austria is the 17th country I’ve traveled to while on MOUD.

What’s a good venue to host a research symposium in Salem, Oregon? ~75 person capacity. Don’t say Pringle Hall, it’s booked.

Any substance use journal editors lurking around here? I have an idea for a viewpoint on something that’s been popping up in the press with increasing frequency, but would love to run it by someone!

minnesota has a right to defend itself

Is possession of a firearm a necessary prerequisite to having the government respect your rights, or a license for said government to execute you on the spot? I am very confused by the “don’t tread on me” crowd suddenly being anti-handgun..?

“Unemployed at 25, Nick had spent a decade bouncing between this gated enclave and at least 18 rehab facilities paid for by his parents, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner.” Treatment should *work.* I am infuriated by this stat. US treatment is so broken. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Inside Nick Reiner’s life of privilege, pills and pain

Friends say Reiner bounced constantly between rehab centers and his family’s Los Angeles mansion, where he is accused of killing his parents, Rob and Michele.

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Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good. In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric. It’s not. /1

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

They've arrested people on less evidence before

What happened to my generation? War, death, and addiction became more commonplace than prosperity. More of my friends went to Iraq than to college after high school. This documentary is incredible and is one part of the “why” the US experienced diverged so far. youtu.be/RIWfH3iEgXU?...

Iraq War Veterans, 20 Years Later: ‘I Don’t Know How to Explain the War to Myself’ | Op-Docs

YouTube video by New York Times Opinion

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Back on October 3, I gave a briefing to Congressional staffers and warned about precisely this. Here’s a short excerpt from that briefing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Rep. Randy Fine: "It's time for Americans to say 'enough,' and if you get in the way of the government repelling a foreign invasion, you're gonna end up just like that lady did yesterday."

He isn’t right often, but Rand Paul is right about Venezuela policy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Rand Paul: "All these designations are steps towards war -- calling drug runners terrorists, saying, 'Oh, if they have a designation'-- Well, how'd they get it? We gave it to them. Why is the former president of Honduras released? So some narcoterrorists are okay & others we're going to blow up"

The European Union Drugs Agency’s Drug School is a jam-packed educational session covering all things drugs and drug policy. The Winter session is online in early March. Registrations are open! www.euda.europa.eu/event/2026/0...

This week, I officially started my study visit at the European Union Drugs Agency in Lisbon, Portugal. This is a three-month collaborative research effort between Drug Checking Los Angeles at UCLA and EUDA, focusing on opioids.

Max Huntsman, the inspector general tasked with holding the LA Sheriff’s Department to account, is retiring… and going out with a bang in this letter 🔥

“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.” By @keribla.bsky.social

As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE

Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.

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Drug Checking Los Angeles makes a guest appearance in this great piece in the NYT today about the misguided war on harm reduction, where the casualties will be your kids and neighbors. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/h...

Cities Move Away From Strategies That Make Drug Use Safer

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Everyone wants to talk about the cost of doing business in America. But no one is mentioning that anything “Made in the USA” didn’t just pay to make the item, but also for the *healthcare costs* of workers’ entire families. We will never be able to compete.

BREAKING: Drug cartels are feared to be among those that obtained sensitive court data due to a sweeping breach of the federal judiciary’s case filing system.

Cartels may be able to target witnesses after major court hack

There is growing concern that cartels and foreign actors could use the stolen data to identify informants and foil criminal probes.

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Thank you, everyone who came out to hear the brilliant @maxjordan.bsky.social, @morgangodvin.bsky.social @chelsealshover.bsky.social, and me chat about #LiberateMethadone. It shouldn't be easier to get the poison than the cure. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781015...

“Mother of Methadone” book talk this Thursday in Culver City. I’m a panelist and finishing the book and loving it, it’s going to be a great talk. Learn how history shaped policy, and why we are so dysfunctional, hear me rant, and more! 7/24 at 7pm www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

Come here me, a methadone patient, rant as a panelist this Thursday in Culver City! www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

Los Angeles people: Come see me speaking at a book talk with @maxjordan.bsky.social and “Mother of Methadone” author @melodyglenn.bsky.social. I’m on methadone, it’s gonna be a lively chat! Thursday July 24, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...