A powerful medium piece by a doctor who refused to treat a man without his consent just because the police tried to make her and her awareness of how her profession has been used to harm: zora.medium.com/the-police-tri…
What if paramedics and EMTs refused to punitively and dangerously administer ketamine just because police instructed them to? We would still have #ElijahMcClain and dozens of others whose names we will never know: thecut.com/2020/06/elijah…
My recent piece about how we don't need more social workers in police departments to solve the problems of racist police violence. Our profession could separate itself from law enforcement, but it doesn't: filtermag.org/social-workers…
An excellent piece out just this week by @CamRasNYC and @DocJae75 about what Abolitionist Social Work could look like if we were true to the liberatory potential of our code of ethics: truthout.org/articles/tradi…
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Thrilled to be here at the @MethadoneLib conference!
Great turnout in the room and I’m sure we have plenty folks logged in remotely representing so many diverse groups and regions!
We all share a commitment to #FreeMethadone!
We are listening to an infuriating clip from @National_usu ‘s podcast Naturally Noncompliant to hear from people about their experiences and why we need to #FreeMethadone.
- The US fentanyl-involved OD death rate is 21.6 per 100,000, a rate that more than TRIPLED in just 5 yrs
- Methamphetamine-involved OD death rate more than quadrupled,
- Cocaine rate more than doubled
Watching @CNN and @andersoncooper talking about the overdose crisis. They are talking about two tragic cases of young people who died of overdose with their grieving family members.
Both overdoses were with counterfeit pills. (1/?)
In first story, the young person thought it was a Percocet. When he was overdosing, a friend was deterred from calling 911 for fear of law enforcement.
In second story, the young man ODd while talking to his girlfriend on the phone but she didn’t know signs of him overdosing.
While they are talking about the need for more awareness of fentanyl adulteration, recognizing overdose, and naloxone access—tougher laws and prosecutions are also being proposed by family. They worry that felony charges for the dealer and 4 years in prison are not enough.