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FYI - I am on the other blue app at the same handle and will try and post more. But I will not be leaving Twitter. For over 14 years, I shared thoughts, musings, and extensive threads that I've been told have impacted many. I don't want to lose them. They'll be here.
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“What you see already is the immediate and extremely dangerous policy of bombing regions without even showing any pretense of evidence that you’re actually hurting the drug trade.” salon.com/2026/03/31/trumps-…
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“Drug wars tend to foster and encourage really undemocratic political forms when it comes to thinking about these issues that other countries have treated as a public health issue.”
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The overdose crisis is shrinking — and mutating axios.com/2026/02/20/overdos…
I'm quoted here- check it out
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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
Feb 7
Local police are desperate to get you to think they aren't ICE, while they brutalize demonstrators and criminalize the poor. Don't believe the #Copaganda.
Feb 6
Appealing to imagined reforms, center-left media tastemakers assure their audiences DHS violence exists outside the otherwise progressive status quo: by @adamjohnsonCHI
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Devastating. Infuriating. Murderous.
These cruel funding cuts will destroy grassroots and treatment programs that are providing vital life-saving services to people who use drugs and those with addictions. npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-567…
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12 Dec 2025
Really excited for this new Congressional briefing series hosted by the Addiction Science Defense Network- Register to join their first session on January 13th 2:30-4pm EDT and share with your member of Congress so we can preserve federal funding! npscoalition.org/congression…
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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
12 Dec 2025
By using AI for writing, you’re robbing yourself of the authentic writer’s experience of not writing
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"The expansion of coca cultivation is a direct
driver of deforestation in the Andean valleys
and the Colombian Amazon." - Learn more about how illegal coca cultivation and the drug war are driving climate and environmental disaster reformrestorerecover.org/evi…
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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
2 Dec 2025
The researchers found that 87% of people who inject drugs in Baltimore would support programs providing access to regulated drugs, in order to protect participants from the adulterated street supply.
Read my latest for @Filtermag_org 🔽
filtermag.org/baltimore-drug…
Researchers surveyed 300 people who inject drugs in Baltimore, and found overwhelming support for the introduction of safe supply (highest among most vulnerable demographics) plus specific preferences for how it should operate.
@LoganHullinger reports:
filtermag.org/baltimore-drug…
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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
17 Nov 2025
the most under-appreciated local government success over the past three years? it’s actually Baltimore imo
-murders down 60%
-major pro-housing reforms including ending parking mandates, legalizing single-stair buildings, and permitting denser housing
3 Nov 2025
Today, I signed a package of bills to make housing in Baltimore more abundant and affordable.
These bills will help folks buy a home and grow wealth, counter decades of disinvestment, and make sure both long-time and new residents feel the benefits of Baltimore's Renaissance.
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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
17 Nov 2025
Police contact of any kind is not innocuous: most police killings start with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime has been reported.
ALT Infographic that says in 2023, 70% of police killings began with officers responding to a suspected non-violent situation or a case where no crime had been reported.
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5 Nov 2025
I actually really love the idea of over-the-counter naltrexone for alcohol use. It helps people to gradually reduce and moderate their drinking on their own terms.
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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
29 Oct 2025
🚨NEW: Pres. Trump's 'big beautiful bill' will have devastating consequences for rural hospitals, leaving communities more vulnerable
And for almost half of all incarcerated people, this means critical, lifesaving care will be even further out of reach 🧵
ALT U.S. map showing that almost half of all incarcerated people are confined in rural jails and prisons
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26 Oct 2025
I just donated. Please join me!
Every $1 donated provides up to 5 meals for New Yorkers in need.
Your gift also helps support access to nourishing food and services for our neighbors across the five boroughs. #FBNYC foodbanknyc.org give.foodbanknyc.org/campaig…
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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
9 Oct 2025
The first of 3 webinars starts today. I couldn’t call myself a true vaping activist if I didn’t promote this event. I am a public health doctor who wants to see an end to cigarettes and people need to know that there are safe alternatives. Join me today. Www.drmarktyndallauthor.com
8 Oct 2025
🚨ATTENTION🚨
The first webinar of our three-part series begins tomorrow at 7pm.
Tell a friend to tell a friend!
You can register for the webinar by clicking the link below ⬇️
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8 Oct 2025
The HUGEST congratulations to my friend, colleague, hero @nabarund for being awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his incredible harm reduction work and research. #MacFellow macfound.org/fellows/class-o…
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8 Oct 2025
Hey Detroit! I will be doing a book talk on Tuesday, October 14th, alongside Kassandra Frederique and Valerie Kelley-Bonner. The event is 3-6 pm, and it is FREE. Register using the QR code on the flyer. Help spread the word!
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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
23 Sep 2025
🚨NEW REPORT: The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than almost any other country in the world
So much for the “land of the free” 🧵
ALT Graph showing that the U.S. incarcerates women at a rate more than 3x any other founding NATO country
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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW retweeted
22 Sep 2025
ICYMI: Compassionate care for drug users is seldom mentioned in local media coverage, and readers will rarely see the words "harm reduction" in a headline.
Learn how to support journalism that is working to change that. 🔽
mobtownredux.news/harm-reduc…
20 Sep 2025
Harm reduction journalism is more important than ever as the media and city officials disregard the livelihoods of those who use drugs.
Read how to support my work in this week's Redux Newsletter ⬇️
mobtownredux.news/harm-reduc…
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