1/ New in American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM): #cannabis use linked to workplace absenteeism. Our study using NSDUH data shows recent cannabis use and cannabis use disorder (CUD) associated with increased work absences. Letitia Mueller Omar Shahawy Joseph Palamar UC San Diego School of Medicine ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-…

“It’s not the most dangerous drug,” Dr. Joseph Palamar, tells me. “It’s not fentanyl. We are not going to have bodies all over the place because of ketamine. But everyone who uses K frequently kind of enters the same reality...I call it K land.” rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

S.F. is giving ‘chill packs’ to homeless meth users. Why it may be a promising intervention San Francisco’s “chill pack” program is not designed to treat methamphetamine addiction but rather provide short-term relief for side effects. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/met…

Our new piece in JAMA: #medetomidine has begun to infiltrate the illicit opioid market in the US Alex J Krotulski, PhD NDEWS NPS Discovery @ CFSRE jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigators José Diaz & Sabina Hirshfield - Challenges and Opportunities with at-Home Blood Collection for HIV-1 Viral Load Monitoring among Sexual Minoritized Men who use Stimulants link.springer.com/article/10.100…

An internal study indicated that individuals who received an LRP award demonstrated consistently higher levels of persistence in research go.nih.gov/RaOZpGf #LRPchat

How HIV/AIDS got its name − the words Americans used for the crisis were steeped in science, stigma and religious language theconversation.com/how-hiv-aids-g…

How can I publish open access when I can’t afford the fees? To avoid the restrictions of paywalls, researchers must often pay an article-processing fee. Nature explores ways to offset the cost. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Nursing is harm reduction: Providing care in the midst of our overdose crisis "As nurses, we know that we must meet patients where they are, offer skilled care and support without stigma or discrimination." healthydebate.ca/2024/09/topic/…

"It’s a high risk for promoters, because of our backwards laws.” “Federal agencies use Burning Man as a training ground for their officers.” “It had no MDMA, just fentanyl & caffeine.” Mattha Busby, who personally benefited from drug checking, reports: filtermag.org/festival-drug-…

🧵In 2021 Oregon became the first state to decriminalize drugs. It recriminalized last week, after three years. There were many reasons; one was because overdoses rose sharply. Our new study finds, critically, this was *not* a result of decriminalization. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

But this is perhaps most important lesson: fentanyl is the prime driver of our nation's historic increases in fatal overdose everywhere it's manifested. Drug policies that don't account for this will fail, and analysis that don't control for it are vulnerable to invalid results.

Public health researchers find decriminalization of drug possession was not associated with Oregon overdose spike medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-h…

New pub! 🚨 In this AJPH piece, Casey Adrian from Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, Stacey Shipe, PhD & I call for a focus on #HIV #prevention, specifically related to #PrEP, among foster care youth. Read here: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJ… nyupublichealth NYU Silver CDUHR

Presidential debate moderators should ask about mental health policy statnews.com/2024/09/06/tru…

Excited to join this lineup of harm reductionists for an event with @YoutRISE!

Weekly Briefing Issue 198 is out now! 🔗: bit.ly/4gfhMuA ➡️NDEWS Special Report: Naloxone utilization in nonfatal opioid overdose-related 911 dispatches from January 1 – August 31, 2024 ➡️Alert from the NDEWS Web Monitoring Team: Reddit online mentions of etomidate

Blood tests of sick festival goers show concerning results "What was alarming was that new psychoactive substances were detected in just under half of the sampled cohort, despite not being reported as intentionally used by any patient." medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-b…

A ‘miracle molecule’ could cut fentanyl deaths in half — or lead more into addiction “We are in a desperate situation right now where the risks of expanding methadone are so outweighed by the benefits of having more people on methadone,” said Noa Krawczyk politico.com/news/2024/09/0…