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Reporter in SF on the cohesive public health/opioid/water beats. Got a tip? Get in touch: jlurie@motherjones.com

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Feb 5

    Tyler died in jail on $300 bail. The cause: dehydration from drug withdrawal. Happening in jails aross the country.

    6 replies . 55 retweets 47 likes
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    OH MY GOD. This is why the new version of the GOP health care bill covers 1 million more people than the old version

    2 retweets 1 like
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    11h

    CBO: People needing maternity, substance & mental health care will incur "thousands of dollars" extra out of pocket in states using waivers.

    25 replies . 1,276 retweets 728 likes
  4. May 23

    I so appreciate the honesty of obits like these. Thinking of her family.

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  5. May 23

    As always, if you're having trouble wading through the muck that is the medicaid budget, read

    44 retweets 28 likes
  6. May 22

    👋 from sf city hall, where board of supervisors pres is talking about need for safe injection facilities

    4 retweets 7 likes
  7. May 22

    In which I chat w about the solutions that the Nat Inst of Health is dreaming up to the opioid epidemic

    1 reply . 9 retweets 18 likes
  8. May 18
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    9/ and waiting for Trump to fulfill his campaign promise to "spend the money" to tackle the opioid epidemic

    5 replies . 34 retweets 49 likes
  9. May 18
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    8/ meanwhile, Americans at the core of Trump's supporters are going through the hell that is this epidemic every day

    7 replies . 23 retweets 40 likes
  10. May 18
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    7/ and threatening to slash ONDCP, which oversees all federal anti drug initiatives, by 95 percent

    3 replies . 27 retweets 46 likes
  11. May 18
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    6/ and creating an opioid commission to produce a report that we essentially already have

    5 replies . 30 retweets 51 likes
  12. May 18
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    5/ which at the moment consists of threatening to cut addiction coverage for millions of Americans

    3 replies . 37 retweets 63 likes
  13. May 18
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    4/ when it comes to ODs, other than distract from Trump's track record on opioids so far

    2 replies . 22 retweets 34 likes
  14. May 18
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    3/ So I (and literally every expert I’ve talked to about this) have a hard time believing that perseverating on a wall is gonna do much

    4 replies . 27 retweets 53 likes
  15. May 18
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    2/ True that most heroin is coming from Mexico and Colombia. But fentanyl is behind this spike in ODs, and that’s coming from China

    3 replies . 48 retweets 74 likes
  16. May 18

    1/ Trump just now: "Drug epidemic is poisoning too many American lives and we're going to stop it" with "the wall." Some thoughts:

    8 replies . 46 retweets 62 likes
  17. May 11

    ICYMI:

    5 replies . 17 retweets 14 likes
  18. May 10

    HHS director, against yrs of scientific evidence, says medication treatment is "substituting one opioid for another"

    2 replies . 20 retweets 15 likes
  19. May 9

    Curious - what do folks make of this kind of PSA?

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  20. May 5
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    A section of acting ONDCP director's email to his staff, shared with

    6 replies . 149 retweets 213 likes
  21. May 5
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    The budget would cut 2 programs entirely: High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program, and Drug-Free Communities program

    35 replies . 444 retweets 400 likes

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