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gonna try to use this again as a place to be sad

[closet-keys]

More People Die of Overdoses After Cops Seize Drugs: Study

The study found local drug users were twice as likely to overdose in the weeks following a drug bust.

"The report, published in American Journal of Public Health and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides the first empirical evidence that cops seizing illicit opioids is associated with increased overdose in the surrounding community. The study looked at two years of opioids and stimulants seizure data from Indianapolis police and looked at how those seizures impacted fatal and non-fatal overdoses in the areas where the seizures took place within certain time frames. The results showed that fatal overdoses doubled in the week after an opioid seizure within about 500 metres of where the seizure occurred. They also found that the distribution of naloxone, the opioid-overdose reversal drug, by paramedics doubled in the two weeks following an opioid-related drug seizure within 500 metres of the bust."

[trans-axolotl]

okay also semi related post. I think it is really silly when people make all these posts about how adderall is so different than meth and start saying demeaning stuff about meth users when they’re discussing the artificially created adderall shortage. the two drugs are both stimulants and yeah they are not chemically identical but they are enough the same that I currently know of a clinical trial where people are piloting adderall as a form of MAT for meth users. (Which has been really popular with the participants so far, people were telling me they liked having access to a consistent supply of adderall and were interested in reducing their meth use to only a couple times a week instead.) so maybe we should start thinking a little bit more about how there’s a lot of propaganda sensationalizing and stigmatizing meth use and stop blaming people who use meth for a shortage that the DEA is causing!!!

[trans-axolotl]

didn't expect this post to get notes so didn't elaborate at the time but a few things to clarify.

the current system of MAT for opioid users is often a logistical nightmare with so many rigid rules and controlling policies that often makes it practically impossible to actually receive what you need, in terms of clinics requiring daily visits or refusing to give take home doses or only offering really low doses or frequent drug testing and then getting kicked out of programs. it just goes on and on. that is not the same as an actually accessible safe supply and the ultimate goal should be safe supply for all drugs, not continuing to place restrictions on access or punitive measures just to access a safer supply.

also saw a lot of people saying in the comments that the goal should be to increase access to Adderall so that no one needs to use meth. i think it's true that if Adderall and other stimulants were more easily available, that there would be some people who do want to stop or cut down on their meth usage. but regardless of how accessible Adderall is there are still going to be people who prefer to use meth, for a lot of different reasons (it's fun! the dosage might work better for some people! the side effects might be better for some people! it's what they're used to! it's cheaper! etc etc etc). i think we should always be fighting to increase the amount of options people have, working towards easily accessible safer supply of all drugs and support people in making their own decisions about their drug use. i believe that people are the experts on their own lives and get to make the decisions that make sense for them about how drug use fits into their lives.

also a lot of misinfo about meth in the comments. here's a few resources to learn about it.

Safer Meth Smoking from Next Distro

Meth Fact Sheet from the Drug Policy Alliance

Methamphetazine from kat.harmreduction

[mumbleprince]

That zine is a true masterpiece from a homie I love a lot 💖

[bulliness]

LMAOOOO

[sentineluno]

WHERE IS THE ANGRY METALCORE TRANS MUSIC

[mumbleprince]

Ballista but they’re more like beatdown / extreme hardcore idk but they got a whole ass EP called Trans Day Of Violence

[song-for-an-unborn-sun]

Grief, Theodor Kittelsen

[berensreverie]

I make art about grief again

[mumbleprince]

How is tumblr so fucking censored that I cant even search the tag “depression” or “lonely”

[grace-is-tired]

I’m sick of just trying to get through things.

I want to enjoy things. I want to look forward to things instead of just dreading being tired and in pain.

[swagvo1d]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[expressions-of-nature]

Khibiny Mountains, Russia by Vitaly Istomin

[landsccape]

[ionomycin]

Grief

ref photo by @jawsstone

[ionomycin]

spores

ref by my friend @jawsstone

[dominiqueramseyart]

Chi-hua-hua 2021

[boycritter]

cracking open a lukewarm one with the nobody

[dugaodna]

cracking open a boiling one with the felt absence of people who will never be there again

[raidesart]

Finished this new painting a while ago but never uploaded it ;O I'm super happy with the outcome! I normally don't work for longer periods of time on backgrounds and scenery. It was super interesting to create something a little outside my comfort zone. I hope you like it! :)

[groenendaze]

if u put dogs in scarves u get………this