@LeoBeletsky

Public health impact of laws & law enforcement @NUSL @hijAction @NUbouve @UCSDMedSchool | Harm reductionist | Nomad | Dad to 2 bandits & cat ⛵

 Boston/Cape/SoCal
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Keri Blakinger@keribla30 Oct 2024
As a reminder, fentanyl does not have magical powers. h/t @LeoBeletsky latimes.com/california/story…
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Join us for our first event in "The Diagnosis of Incarceration" speaker series on Wed., 9/18 from 4:30-5:45 PM! bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealthRSVP We're delighted to welcome @LeoBeletsky & @mccreedy_katie of @HiJAction at @Northeastern and @ewidra of @PrisonPolicy to kickstart the series.
Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice@HKS_PCJ4 Sep 2024
Announcing our Fall '24 Speaker Series! Join us Wednesdays @ 4:30 PM ET, starting 9/18, for "The Diagnosis of Incarceration: The Health Impacts of Criminal System Involvement" moderated by Dr. Cara Muñoz Buchanan! More info: bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealth RSVP: bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealthRSVP
Light blue background, with a center image of a light blue surgical mask stretched over barbed wire The Diagnosis of Incarceration: The Health Impacts of Criminal System Involvement Fall 2024 HKS PCJ Speaker Series Wednesdays @ 4:30 PM on Zoom September 18 Just How Bad: The Nature + Extent of Health Inequities for People in the U.S. Criminal Legal System September 25 Health Check Up: Current Medical “Standards of Care” in U.S. Jails, Prisons, and Detention Centers October 9 Who Watches the Watchers? Challenges to Oversight and Accountability in Carceral Healthcare October 23 How to Count Those Who Don’t Count: Criminal System Health Data, Outcomes, and Research November 20 Justice on the Frontlines: Case Studies in the Delivery of Community Healthcare & the Potential of Medicaid 1115 Policy as a Practice-Changing Tool December 11 Broken Bars: Reimagining a Blueprint for Healthcare in and Beyond Carceral Settings More info: bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealth bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealthRSVP

ALT Light blue background, with a center image of a light blue surgical mask stretched over barbed wire The Diagnosis of Incarceration: The Health Impacts of Criminal System Involvement Fall 2024 HKS PCJ Speaker Series Wednesdays @ 4:30 PM on Zoom September 18 Just How Bad: The Nature + Extent of Health Inequities for People in the U.S. Criminal Legal System September 25 Health Check Up: Current Medical “Standards of Care” in U.S. Jails, Prisons, and Detention Centers October 9 Who Watches the Watchers? Challenges to Oversight and Accountability in Carceral Healthcare October 23 How to Count Those Who Don’t Count: Criminal System Health Data, Outcomes, and Research November 20 Justice on the Frontlines: Case Studies in the Delivery of Community Healthcare & the Potential of Medicaid 1115 Policy as a Practice-Changing Tool December 11 Broken Bars: Reimagining a Blueprint for Healthcare in and Beyond Carceral Settings More info: bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealth bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealthRSVP

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Announcing our Fall '24 Speaker Series! Join us Wednesdays @ 4:30 PM ET, starting 9/18, for "The Diagnosis of Incarceration: The Health Impacts of Criminal System Involvement" moderated by Dr. Cara Muñoz Buchanan! More info: bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealth RSVP: bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealthRSVP
Light blue background, with a center image of a light blue surgical mask stretched over barbed wire The Diagnosis of Incarceration: The Health Impacts of Criminal System Involvement Fall 2024 HKS PCJ Speaker Series Wednesdays @ 4:30 PM on Zoom September 18 Just How Bad: The Nature + Extent of Health Inequities for People in the U.S. Criminal Legal System September 25 Health Check Up: Current Medical “Standards of Care” in U.S. Jails, Prisons, and Detention Centers October 9 Who Watches the Watchers? Challenges to Oversight and Accountability in Carceral Healthcare October 23 How to Count Those Who Don’t Count: Criminal System Health Data, Outcomes, and Research November 20 Justice on the Frontlines: Case Studies in the Delivery of Community Healthcare & the Potential of Medicaid 1115 Policy as a Practice-Changing Tool December 11 Broken Bars: Reimagining a Blueprint for Healthcare in and Beyond Carceral Settings More info: bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealth bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealthRSVP

ALT Light blue background, with a center image of a light blue surgical mask stretched over barbed wire The Diagnosis of Incarceration: The Health Impacts of Criminal System Involvement Fall 2024 HKS PCJ Speaker Series Wednesdays @ 4:30 PM on Zoom September 18 Just How Bad: The Nature + Extent of Health Inequities for People in the U.S. Criminal Legal System September 25 Health Check Up: Current Medical “Standards of Care” in U.S. Jails, Prisons, and Detention Centers October 9 Who Watches the Watchers? Challenges to Oversight and Accountability in Carceral Healthcare October 23 How to Count Those Who Don’t Count: Criminal System Health Data, Outcomes, and Research November 20 Justice on the Frontlines: Case Studies in the Delivery of Community Healthcare & the Potential of Medicaid 1115 Policy as a Practice-Changing Tool December 11 Broken Bars: Reimagining a Blueprint for Healthcare in and Beyond Carceral Settings More info: bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealth bit.ly/HKSCarceralHealthRSVP

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Leo Beletsky retweeted
JAMA
@JAMA_current14 Jul 2024
Editorial by @LeoBeletsky & @MaxJordan_N: "Although promising, these grassroots efforts are no substitute for effective reform to address high costs, shortages, overcommercialization, and other failures in the US pharmaceutical market." ja.ma/3zFujXu
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My 1st @JAMA_current paper is an invited commentary on cost-sharing causing people to abandon naloxone prescriptions, and more broadly, how the political economy of pharmaceuticals impacts the US opioid overdose epidemic & response. Thx @LeoBeletsky for sharing this opportunity🙏🏾
JAMA
@JAMA_current13 Jun 2024
Editorial by @LeoBeletsky & @MaxJordan_N: "Although promising, these grassroots efforts are no substitute for effective reform to address high costs, shortages, overcommercialization, and other failures in the US pharmaceutical market." ja.ma/3z0Ob6T
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I lost a decade to addiction and incarceration. I have 3 felonies. It took me 15 years from my first college credit to my last to get a Bachelors. I was accepted into Yale, Harvard, Columbia and more. I rejected them and am instead doing a PhD at UCSD/SDSU. How things change.
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Come join me and @LeoBeletsky at @UCSDMedSchool for a coffee and conversation about developing harm reduction workforce! Thank you to @elisolomon97 and team for organizing. Reg here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Overdose or Poisoning? A New Debate Over What to Call a Drug Death: Grieving families want official records to move away from reflexive use of “overdose" @SandraBagwell19 @TXAFawareness @RepMikeGarcia @LeoBeletsky @PoisonCenters @ShatterproofHQ nytimes.com/2024/03/11/healt…

Overdose or Poisoning? A New Debate Over What to Call a Drug Death. (Published 2024)

Grieving families want official records and popular discourse to move away from reflexive use of “overdose,” which they believe blames victims for their deaths.

nytimes.com
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Our Faculty Director @LeoBeletsky will be headlining a panel on drug policy and public safety at @BerkeleyLaw's Justice Unveiled conference on Friday, March 8. The event is free to attend. Register and learn more here: law.berkeley.edu/research/pu…

Justice Unveiled: Debating Crime and Public Safety Conference

Admission is free, registration is required. To register for this event, please click on the above event banner or visit: https://bit.ly/JusticeUnveiled 9:00 – 9:30 | (WARREN ROOM)   PARTICIPANT...

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Detox centers in Portland turn away half the people who come to them due to lack of capacity. Overall, Oregon has only a 50% treatment capacity to meet the need. Simply put, Measure 110 is not what is hindering Oregonians from getting treatment. #ORLeg prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/0…

Oregon shouldn’t go backwards on drug decriminalization

Oregon is in danger of repealing one of the most important criminal legal system reforms of recent years: here’s why the state should keep Measure ...

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This chart from the study shows the distribution of corrective or misinformed language in media articles. 76% of 348 articles analyzed had misinformed narratives.
Online Media Articles Using Misinformed versus Corrective Language (Jan. 2015-Dec. 2021) chart demonstrating peaks of corrective versus uninformed language.

ALT Online Media Articles Using Misinformed versus Corrective Language (Jan. 2015-Dec. 2021) chart demonstrating peaks of corrective versus uninformed language.

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🚨New research on “Popular media misinformation on neonatal abstinence syndrome, 2015–2021” was published by the Action Lab’s @mccreedy_katie, Aanchalika Chauhan, Gabriel Holder, Sunyou Kang, Eric Reinhart, and @LeoBeletsky. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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'People will keep dying': Fentanyl crisis grips Mexico's border cities Prevencasa is a harm reduction centre in the city which provides a needle exchange and medical services ⁦@PrevencasaAc⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a…

'People will keep dying': Fentanyl crisis grips Mexico's border cities

More Mexicans are consuming the deadly drug, leading to a spike in overdoses.

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Read our latest - and the well-settled history and clear analysis that debunks the aim by some to erode prosecutorial independence & disrespect the rights of voters to guide the vision of justice their community wants and deserves. @AmCrimLRev with @theblairlair
Fair and Just Prosecution@fjp_org29 Jan 2024
Voters are electing leaders who support a more just legal system, but some lawmakers have taken unprecedented measures to impede progress. In @AmCrimLRev, @miriamkrinsky & @theblairlair critically examine undemocratic attacks on reform-minded prosecutors. law.georgetown.edu/american-…

Why Attacks on Prosecutorial Discretion Are Attacks on Democracy

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Authors call on modelers to explore health and economic impacts of criminal-legal reforms. #PWUD #HarmReduction #DrugPolicyReform #simulationmodeling #UCSD@NMartinUCSD @LeoBeletsky @BenjaminLinas @AMBayoumi @haroldpollack @SarahLarney bit.ly/3H3PbIn
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Leo Beletsky retweeted
Corey Davis@coreysdavis4 Jan 2024
After a nearly two year saga, that paper that claimed to find an association between drug-induced homicide laws and fatal overdose has been retracted. Thanks to all the folks who worked to make it happen! journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… @veruka2 @nabarund @el_sabawi @LeoBeletsky

Retracted: Longitudinal Study on Deterrent Effect of Drug-Induced Homicide Law on Opioid-Related...

journals.sagepub.com
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First population-level evaluation of prescribing pharmaceutical alternatives to illicit drugs (“safer supply”) finds opioid users prescribed 1 day’s supply 61% less likely to die following week from any cause, 4 days 91% “The strongest evidence thus far” theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Major study finds people with opioid addictions 61% less likely to die if prescribed safer supply

The research published in the British Medical Journal looked at data from B.C. residents with either opioid or stimulant use disorder who had filled a prescription as part of the province’s program

theglobeandmail.com
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This will be great! BTW @LeoBeletsky has been on @crackdownpod talking about the Iron Law of Prohibition. crackdownpod.blubrry.net/202…

Episode 34: The Iron Law - Crackdown

Drug decriminalization is coming to British Columbia. And that’s a big step forward. Our movement has been fighting for decriminalization for decades. To us, decriminalization means getting cops,...

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Prosecution is not a solution to a public health crisis. Safe supply is. Overdose prevention centers are. Voluntary treatment is. Fighting stigma is. These families have experienced great loss, but public policy should not compound those losses with more trauma. cc: @LeoBeletsky
NBC10 Boston@NBC10Boston16 Nov 2023
Thousands of people overdose and die each year in Massachusetts, with more than 2,300 deaths last year alone. But in most of those cases, the person dealing the drugs is never held accountable, frustrating the families and loved ones left behind. on.nbcboston.com/pNFqeli

Families of overdose victims want to see more prosecution of drug dealers

Thousands of people overdose and die each year in Massachusetts, with more than 2,300 deaths last year alone. But in most of those cases, the person dealing the drugs is never held accountable,...

nbcboston.com
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