We had one on my block. He used to buy my sister alcohol when she was 13 and has had a lifetime of issues since then. He hung himself in his early twenties which ppl caught on to him. His parents watched me a few times but I was never left alone with him.

SAN FRANCISCO 📢 I’ve organized a free overdose prevention training event at OASIS this Weds 5/22! Free food & entertainment! The bar will be open! Learn how to use Narcan but make it fun! Xo

I have an older brother who doesn’t understand me but is proud of me nevertheless. He visited me in jail and put money on my books so I know he appreciates my turn around.

I’m not cheering about the overdose rates going down. I think we will find the rates are going down because so many people have died.

In the small program I oversee, two people died in the past month. The older folks who lived through the AIDS crisis have now died from ODs.

Meet Katana—a purebred, 2-year-old female #Akita who will be euthanized on Tues b/c she's been at ACCT Philly for a month. Which is too long. She had a family; they moved and surrendered her. A decision that will cost her her life.

My teen is going to be doing volunteering for overdose prevention related places this summer. I’m proud that she wants to use her limited time for this.

My friend that died recently was in near constant pain because they didn’t want to give her pain meds despite her having multiple bouts of cancer. She had been fighting multiple types for close to 13 years. 13 years of pain because of arbitrary rules.

Our long-awaited reveal on #xylazine being a kappa opioid (also α2 + σ) has been published!

Definitive: naloxone acts on xylazine.

Props to Madigan and XPHuang who did the hands-on experiments

#openaccess of course

SF street report. Today- no tents seen. Zero. Streets pretty clean except usual dog poop around SOMA. Only saw one fent dealer which is weird because they are usually in pairs. Only saw 1 person using, less ppl than usual sleeping. Scooters on the sidewalk are a menace per usual.

‘What was the plan?’ Understaffed, overcrowded SF jails reach crisis point missionlocal.org/2024/05/what-w… via Mission Local

A girl at my kid’s school just had a miscarriage and another is pregnant. Two pregnancies in a fairly small school in such a short period of time sends up all kinds of alarms for me.

“You see it in their face, people's eyes are dead, that spark isn't there.” Fmr CNN reporter & @inaraorg founder @iamarwadamon tells me about the chaos she saw in Gaza, and the psychological toll the Israel-Hamas war is taking on the children who live there.

Made you a meme

A United Nations staff member was killed and another injured while traveling to a hospital in Rafah on Monday morning.

There is nowhere safe to go in Gaza. International action is needed to prevent further atrocities.

Was excited to see a clip for Amina Akhtar book “Almost Surely Dead” in the stream for #InterviewWithTheVampire . Very cool.

#InterviewWithTheVampire is simply stunning. It’s creepy. It moves you. The reimagining of the source material truly elevates it.

I’d rate this movie a 7/10. It had a lot of interesting elements but was about 20 mins too long.

Happy Mother’s Day or “fuck the bitch that raised me” whichever fits!