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UMSL|MIMH Addiction Science Team @mimhaddisci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What a weekend at Tower Grove Pride🏳️‍🌈 Our Addiction Science team had a table at #TowerGrovePride2026, where we shared free naloxone and overdose prevention resources with our St. Louis community. Anyone can carry naloxone, and anyone can save a life. Request free naloxone at getmissourinaloxone.com

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Pisces! ♓️ Compassion! 🫶

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Thad Leffingwell, Ph.D. @thadleffingwell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Takeaway from #CPA2026: Maybe money can’t buy happiness but resource depravity sure as hell contributes a lot to human struggle and suffering.

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

feat. Dr. Rachel Winograd, myself, Schyler Newman, and Frances Storgion -- where we'll be talking about the novel Recovery Housing Barriers to Medications for Addiction Treatment (RHB-MAT) measure! 📃🏘

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Come see our ASPIRE Lab presentation tomorrow/Sat. 9:30-10:45am in Liberty for our "Attitudes and Capacity as Barriers to MOUD in Recovery Housing: Findings from the MO I-STARR Project"! #CPA2026 @apadivision50.bsky.social

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Check out www.getMOnaloxone.com for more information 🧐, or follow @mimhaddisci.bsky.social and spread the word! 🫶

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Get MO Naloxone

Request your naloxone by mail today.

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

$8 million in annual naloxone funds could be cut in Missouri. That could mean 400 extra deaths by 2030. Spending on naloxone is not only an investment for our future, WE CAN'T GO BACKWARDS!!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/11/2025

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

COVID vaccines are now available to anyone—no prescription needed! Swipe for resources on where to find one near you.

Graph answering whether or not you can get a COVID vaccine. Text reads: Can you get a COVID Vaccine? Are you younger than 6 months? Wow! Look at you reading already! But no, the vaccine is not approved for anyone under 6 months old. Are you 6 months or older? YES, you can. Are you without a prescription? Yes, you can. Are you covered by insurance? Yes* *Like in previous years, COVID and flu vaccines are covered at no cost under most health insurance plans, including Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Vaccines for Children Program, and by insurance plans regulated by the Affordable Care Act. Are you over age 65 or immunocompromised? Definitely, yes. Are you pregnant? Yes, you can.

Text reads: Where can I get a vaccine? Vaccines are available through pharmacies and health care providers. Your local health department may also offer seasonal vaccine clinics. Here are tools for locating one near you: VaxAssist at vaxassist.com. VaccineFinder at vaccinefinder.org. CVEEP Vaccine Locator at
veep.org/vaccine-locator.

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The "nice and pretty" published version of our Perspective discussing the ACTUAL evidence of naloxone's "enabling" consequences (which there is very little) and the research examining the PERCEPTION that naloxone is "enabling" is out now, if you haven't read it yet! doi.org/10.15288/jsa...

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If It Were Enabling, Where's the Evidence? Applying Moral Hazard and Risk Compensation Theories to Community Naloxone Distribution and Other “Safety Net” Public Health Interventions: Journal of Studie...

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Oh my gosh congratulations!! 🥳🎉 You should definitely be feeling proud and excited!!

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Just 7 days until the panel discussing lived perspectives on the opioid vaccine! 💉 Hope to see you there in-person or on Zoom!

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Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicy.org · 19/08/2025

The Drug war was built for control, not care. Now history is repeating itself. 🧵

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

(Thank you to the amazing Morgan B. at the UMSL-MIMH Addiction Science Team for helping draft this post!)

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Authored by @rayraywino.bsky.social & myself, this piece challenges how we frame harm reduction. A must-read for anyone working in addiction science, policy, or public health. Read the pre-proof here: bsky.app/profile/jsad...

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Framing matters. How we talk about moral hazard vs. risk compensation shapes the evaluation of safety net strategies like naloxone. Let’s focus on evidence, not stigma.

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

In our new Perspective in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs @jsadjournal.bsky.social we dive into how critiques of naloxone often confuse moral hazard (population-level) with risk compensation (individual-level). Two different concepts that can (and should) be tested with real-world data.

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

What do naloxone, PrEP, helmets & seatbelts share? They’re tools that reduce harm, as a safety net that only “activates” when risk is present. Yet naloxone gets uniquely branded as “enabling.” WHY? And why does it MATTER?

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Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW @myharmreduction.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

What an insult to our harm reduction movement and elders who fought so hard for naloxone and fentanyl test strip access. Check out the atrocious language in the latest letter from SAMHSA claiming these tools are "not harm reduction." www.samhsa.gov/sites/defaul...

In recent years, the life-saving opioid overdose reversal medications (OORMs), naloxone and nalmefene, have been lumped into an ideological concept of harm reduction which has been used to advocate for policies that are incompatible with federal laws and inconsistent with this Administration's priorities.

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This panel is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 29th, 12:00pm-1:00pm Central Time, and will be hosted in-person (in Benton Hall on UMSL campus) and on Zoom (please refer to the QR code in the banner). Questions or comments? Email me (or DM me on Bluesky), since I'm moderating the panel!

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Have you heard about the novel opioid vaccine / fentanyl vaccine? If not (or even if you have!), our next SURG Brunch 'n Learn meeting will feature our first-ever Translational Panel - composed of four people with lived experience in drug use - discussing the novel opioid vaccine in development.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

If I hear one more reporter say these attacks on universities and science are about "antisemitism," I am going to lose it. This is about destroying higher education full stop and it doesn't help to parrot the White House's talking points. www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

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Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicy.org · 27/06/2025

The truth? Medicaid (largest payer of addiction treatment) faces $800B in cuts. SAMSHA's been cut by $1B and lost 1/3 of its staff. This all threatens access to treatment, fentanyl withdrawal meds & naloxone. In NC, Project Lazarus lost DOJ grants for jail-to-treatment diversion.

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

In no particular order, thank you for saying hi, as it made my day each day! Cecilia Bergeria, Denis Antoine, Justin Strickland, Kelly Dunn, Matt Novak, Jennifer Ellis, Eric Strain, Andrew Huhn, Caitlin Durgin, Kevin Xu - and new connections Tanya Saraiya, Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, Phillip Coffin!

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I appreciate @kaytryncampbell.bsky.social for keeping me company all the time and @cpddorg.bsky.social for coordinating mentor-match so I could meet Delisa Brown (to whom I am also grateful)! Also, I remember being so kindly welcomed as a First-Time Attendee by CPDD Board Member Qiana Brown! 🥰

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I'm still in awe after attending and presenting at #CPDD2025, which marks a big personal and professional milestone to see all my mentors and senior scholars in action! Alongside them, I'm proud to have garnered plenty foot traffic at my poster on MOUD stigma among residents in recovery housing!

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/06/2025

While the Trump administration was having a birthday party, we were marching across the nation for our rights. And we’re not slowing down.

Hands hold up two signs. One says "Free speech, free country. ACLU." The other says "Save free speech."

Someone holds up a sign in front of their face that says "Democracy dies when we remain silent." They're in a poncho and also holding an American flag.

Someone holds up a sign that says "We the people." Other people with umbrellas stand around them.

A sign is held over a crowd of people. It has a large monarch butterfly and says "Immigrants grow communities."

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mjarnett.bsky.social @mjarnett.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Science is under unprecedented threat in the US, and we need to speak out to save it. If you are an early-career researcher, please consider signing our open letter calling to preserve the future of American science: tinyurl.com/mcclintockle.... Our futures, and our country's future, depend on it.

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Open Letter: A Call to Preserve the Future of American Science

The Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP) invites early-career scientists (e.g., student, post-bacc, PhD candidate, post-doctoral researcher, early-career faculty) in the United States to join...

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Super grateful to my co-authors who reviewed my analyses and contributed to writing on this fun "summer project" (... it's June again, right? 🫢), and to the ART Production Team for their patience as this was my first time being responsible for submitting and proofing a manuscript! 😅

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Applying the Dualistic Model of Passion to opioid use with a treatment-seeking clinical sample? Interestingly, observed higher 'obsessive passion' mean than 'harmonious passion' mean, which contrasts past DMP + substance use studies but aligns with one DMP + gambling study! doi.org/10.1080/1606...

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Exploring passion for opioid use with a treatment-seeking sample: results from a canonical correlation analysis

Novel and personalized intervention strategies are necessary to address the wide treatment gap for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) who are not prescribed medications for OUD (MOUD). The ...

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Please excuse my bedhead 😴 - feeling proud to have presented at my first #CPA2025, examining differential stigma toward MOUD among recovery housing residents based on their own lived experience with these meds! Thank you to mentors, co-authors, and friends for their support with this project!

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Thanks to mentors, co-authors, and friends for their support and presence throughout this project. 💜 And look out for the upcoming papers from this MO I-STARR grant!

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Schyler @schylernewman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Come check me out Saturday morning at 8:30 am #62!!! I’ll be discussing Missouri’s first federally funded CM program for stimulant use disorder #CPA2025

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

What a great presentation, and a bonus to see a familiar face, @juststrickland.bsky.social !!

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.

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Schyler @schylernewman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

finally joined bluesky thanks to #CPA2025 this week 💅🏻

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Kelly E. Dunn, Ph.D., MBA @drkellydunn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Colleagues, please see the Op-Ed below. Both #depression and #OUD had medical breakthroughs in 1965, so why do we now have >90 options for antidepressants & only 4 for #opioid use disorder? Let's use the depression field as an actionable road map for solving #addiction!

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ABCT Student SIG @abctstudentsig.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

🚨 CALLING ALL UNDERGRADUATE, POST-BACC, AND GRADUATE STUDENTS! The ABCT Student SIG is excited to announce that we are now ACCEPTING PROPOSALS for our third annual Student Research Symposium! Check out the thread below for more info on this FREE & VIRTUAL event! #ABCTStudentSymposium2025

ABCT student Sig 3rd annual research symposium

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Kelly E. Dunn, Ph.D., MBA @drkellydunn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Today @cpddorg.bsky.social members met with congressional representatives to advocate for NIH funding, maintaining our negotiated indirect rates, and streamlining our science. You can advocate too- call your congresspeople and advocate for science! -> www.congress.gov/members/find...

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Before panic sets it. The New NIH Director and Congress will want research to continue, so the machine will start up at some point. Keep writing papers and preparing proposals. AND educate the public about the key role peer review plays in science and the time and infrastructure investment needed

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Brandon Park @bparketal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This is who I was over there... hopefully I found everyone who has Bluesky accounts on here! 😍

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