"During heat waves, hospital admissions for #MentalHealth spike. The past 10 years were the hottest on record, it’s time to take steps to increase our preparedness for extreme heat." Read more in The Conversation ⬇️ theconversation.com/climate-change… #ClimateChange

“Early in the morning, there’s tolerance & later in the day it disappears" – The intersection of resource scarcity, stress & stigma in mental health & substance use care in South Africa Read more in #CPGlobalmentalhealth: bit.ly/3xFk1pq #mentalhealth #psychiatry

Great to see our qualitative study featured by Cambridge Prisms - see link below for access to the open access full text, focused on the experience and mechanisms of #stigma in Ethiopia, offering insights into local perspectives.

Smartest English-language discussion I’ve seen on the Democrats so far: nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

Rebecca Cheptegei - Burned Agnes Tirop - Stabbed Damaris Mutua - Strangled All female athletes killed in the last 3 years whose husbands or boyfriends are suspects. Kenya has a femicide problem

AN important look at a completely under-covered side of life in Atlanta: how mutual aid is making for different lives and communities. Hope we see more stories abt this in other cities! Dan Berger Will Potter #StopCopCity 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 costoflivingatl.org/post/mutual-aid

🧵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…

Yes! Studies show how suicide rates ⬇️ when you remove access to lethal means... even stoves with high carbon monoxide output. hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/m… Disparities in gun-related deaths in the US relative to other countries are strong evidence of the need to ⬇️ gun access.

Biodiversiy is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.

Police are just not capable of keeping our kids safe, even when they know there is a threat. This child begged for help and all he got was policing.

Just read "Two Racial Capitalisms: Marxism, Domination, and Resistance in Cedric Robinson and Stuart Hall" by Marcel Paret and Zachary Levenson and it is a must read. It provided profound clarity on the similarities and sharp differences between the two scholars -onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Rich Homie Quan, who would have been 35 on October 4, has died. He was planning to release music by his birthday, he warmly told budding reporter Alanah Story in an interview posted just yesterday. rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

What an honor to receive news today that our American Psychologist article was selected as an APA Journals Editor’s Choice. Mahogany Monette Jarrett Lewis Salmān Safīr (he/him) The article is open access for 30 days: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-…

The methadone lobby (and their private equity backers) convinced enough Republicans to support their closed loop system of methadone clinics. Totally bonkers. Every peer nation but US treats methadone like a normal drug that any doctor can Rx. politico.com/news/2024/09/0…

Glad I have science to back me up when I’m just tweeting through it

wrote for The New Republic about how, while fentanyl is mentioned constantly on the campaign trail, the crisis it is causing - the overdose crisis - is not. overdoses are not caused by migration and asylum seekers. it demands a public health response. newrepublic.com/article/185098…

the Uhuru 3 trial started this week, in which activists are charged with being "foreign agents." the old Red Scare is definitely still the Red Scare blackagendareport.com/black-alliance…