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Caitlin Molina

@caitlinmolina.medsky.social
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Harm Reduction. Street Medicine. Future physician Views my own She/her/ella

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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 03/12/2025
Still a few hours left in Giving Tuesday 😏 Harm reductionists fill in the gaps- we saw it with our local community response to the fires in LA, amidst raids, and the every day acts that keep people on their feet (food, water, clothes, blankets, tarps, tents, pet supplies, etc.)
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 17/11/2025
Similarly, instead of using AI, commission artists for their work!
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 17/11/2025
How was it?? I took Amtrak to the AMERSA conference- I was worried I'd miss my talk with flight delays/cancellations. Good excuse to take the train up the West Coast!
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 17/11/2025
The UCFA/UCLAFA/AAUP victory is on the front page of today’s LA Times. (No leadership or administrators were harmed in actually standing up to the Feds. because they didn’t.)
Photo of the Sunday Edition paper of the LA Times. Headline reads: “Judge blocks Trump’s move to fine UCLA”
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Candace Winstead @candacewinstead.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Proud of Brooke & our small but mighty team of drug checkers at SLO Bangers, presenting @amersa.org So great to hang w my social science collab “phone an anthropologist“ BFF sister @drteresa-winst.bsky.social (presented w her student on polydrug use) & w our LA DC fam @caitlinmolina.medsky.social
Three smiling women stand in front of a poster under fluorescent lightsMy former student Brooke smiles in front of our posterBlurry dark selfie of three laughing women in puffy jackets
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 15/11/2025
The unofficial AMERSA ACDC meet-up 🥰
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 14/11/2025
Day 1 of @amersa.org in the books. Looking forward to Day 2! The Drug Checking LA team has a special guest at our workshop tomorrow (Rabiosa the FTIR).
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 28/09/2025
Happy NFL Sunday to all who watch The Aaron Rodgers sack count is at 2 so far. Skol.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 17/08/2025
Congratulations! Great photos. I was wondering when your kid would be here!
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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 15/08/2025
Latinsky is 150 people away from having 1k on the feed! Help #BuildTheBarrio and share this post so the Latine community on Bluesky knows that there’s a place for us here! If you’re Latine, reach out to be included in the feed! If you’re an ally, share the post so your Latine friends see it too!
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This point isnt being made enough. Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter. www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
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The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Experts often talk as if there are distinct "types" of homelessness—chronic vs episodic, hidden vs visible—but they miss something crucial. Homelessness is a *spectrum of insecurity*: in a squalid motel today, on someone's couch tomorrow, in a tent next year. Sweeps do NOTHING to stop this cycle.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 11/08/2025
Spent a lot of time with my cousin's kid this past week. What a reminder at how open-minded and loving kids can be! We talked harm reduction, service dogs (why Huxley couldn't be at places where other dogs were), how to express feelings...and he understood everything. The kids are alright.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
lolll this quote is a banger: “The best approach is putting drug dogs in the officer’s locker rooms, because that’s where it’s coming in.”
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 02/08/2025
Great picture & great conversation!
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My latest, with @kellydoran.bsky.social: In 2 major USMLE Step 1 & 2 Qbanks, vignettes with patients experiencing homelessness overrepresented HIV, TB, & substance use, underrepresented top causes of death like CV disease & cancer, & often used stigmatizing language link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 17/07/2025
Love seeing you & @kellymdoran.bsky.social collab!
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 13/05/2025
So exciting! Wish I was there. I'm sending to a friend who is there
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Chelsea L. Shover, PhD @chelsealshover.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
And then Drug Checking Los Angeles today: awesome project director @caitlinmolina.medsky.social and superstar collaborator @josephrfriedman.bsky.social had posters on the odd things we've been seeing in illicit drugs. Quetiapine (Seroquel) in heroin...Local anesthetics ('caines) in the fentanyl.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 19/04/2025
Who else is excited for ASAM?? I'm getting there early and will be on the hunt for the best coffee. Denver friends, drop your fave recs
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 13/04/2025
Good morning runners, walkers, cyclists, and anyone else who likes to spend time outdoors. Don't forget to carry naloxone. You never know when you need it. I like to keep the injectable kind in my smaller bags.
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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Reason #2. "Of the 100 brand-name drugs, 32 were finished in the US, while 67 were finished in countries in the European Union, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, & the UK." #Tariffs will increase the cost of your medications. www.cidrap.umn.edu/report-detai...
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Report details where top 100 brand-name Rx drugs are made
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Margot Kushel MD @mkushel.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Crushing people doesn't make people safe & that just one way that "clearing" homelessness encampments harms health. No one wants there to be homeless encampments. But treating human beings as if they were garbage to be disposed of isn't a solution. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
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In Cities’ Rush to Clear Homeless Camps, People Have Been Crushed to Death
Atlanta’s mayor began a drive to clear homeless encampments. But when heavy equipment came to raze one, nobody noticed that Cornelius Taylor was still inside his tent.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 27/02/2025
Congratulations, Alana!!
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Children’s Hospital LA is lifting its recent restrictions on hormonal treatment for transgender youth www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Children's Hospital L.A. lifts recent limits on hormonal therapy for transgender youth
Children's Hospital L.A. is easing recent restrictions on hormonal treatment for transgender youth, reversing a move that set off protests outside the hospital.
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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her @drquinngyn.medsky.social · 21/02/2025
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has a new online misinformation hub with lots of really good resources addressing health topics frequently targeted by misinformation such as abortion, contraception, vaccines, and menopause. Here’s the link!
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Combating Misinformation
Curated by ACOG, this collection of resources is designed to combat the growing threat of health care misinformation.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 12/02/2025
If you haven't yet read it, check out this research letter in JAMA led by @chelsealshover.bsky.social on the introduction of BTMPS in the illicit fentanyl supply across the US and why it's so concerning cc: @morgangodvin.bsky.social 2/2 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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UV Stabilizer BTMPS in the Illicit Fentanyl Supply in 9 US Locations
This study characterizes the presence of bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate (BTMPS) in the illicit fentanyl supply in 9 US locations.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 12/02/2025
More coverage this AM on the puzzling arrival of industrial chemical BTMPS in the illicit fentanyl supply And a timely reminder of the value of public health research With quotes from @chelsealshover.bsky.social @morgangodvin.bsky.social @nabarund.bsky.social 1/2 www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/h...
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‘One of the larger mysteries I’ve ever seen’: Industrial chemical found in illicit fentanyl | CNN
The drug supply is constantly evolving, and some experts suggest that a “fourth wave” of the opioid epidemic is underway, in which illicit fentanyl is more frequently mixed with other drugs.
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Ashley Esqueda @ashleyesqueda.com · 10/02/2025
Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 10/02/2025
I screamed at that 😂😭
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 09/02/2025
A paramedic I used to work with bought one for that exact reason. Easier to hear at encampments under/next to fwys.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 09/02/2025
LA friends, there's a new Pasadena Community Fridge inside Neighbors & Friends Café. Open 9 AM- 3 PM. Make sure your loved ones affected by the Eaton fire know
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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
We don’t expect you to read our 66-page report, so here’s a op-ed in @westword.com www.westword.com/news/colorad...
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Increasing Criminal Penalties for Drug Possession Doesn’t Work: We Did the Study for Colorado
The report on results of the Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention Act was designed to inform future decision-making...and "that future is now."
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Over just a few months, a puzzling new adulterant popped up in the fentanyl supply. Today in @jama.com, our drug checking results show the sudden (and much-despised) appearance of BTMPS. Not a spoiler: It’s a great mystery of my career! ja.ma/4hsgRqW
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UV Stabilizer BTMPS in the Illicit Fentanyl Supply in 9 US Locations
This study characterizes the presence of bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate (BTMPS) in the illicit fentanyl supply in 9 US locations.
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Our story: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Protesters call for Children's Hospital L.A. to reverse restrictions on transgender care
Hundreds rallied Thursday in the rain outside Children's Hospital Los Angeles, calling for rollbacks to new restrictions on gender-affirming care for youth.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 07/02/2025
Trans rights are human rights. And we gotta take care of the kids. An aside- drove by this on my way to work last night. It was POURING all night.
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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
CALIFORNIA. These are the committees our Senators are on. Schiff’s on Small Business. Get on his ass about this data breach by Big Balls at the SBA. Padilla’s on Budget. If he isn’t up in this OMB shit, tell him to get in it. IT’S LITERALLY THEIR JOB BEYOND JUST BEING ELECTED BY US.
Schiff, Adam B. (D-CA)
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
• Committee on Environment and Public Works
• Committee on Small
Business and
Entrepreneurship
• Committee on the JudiciaryPadilla, Alex (D-CA)
• Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources
• Committee on Environment and Public Works
• Committee on Rules and
Administration (Ranking)
• Committee on the Budget
• Committee on the Judiciary
• Joint Committee on Printing
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 01/02/2025
My sis was watching The Pitt and I caught a bit of a scene where they gave a person Narcan & FTS at discharge (I assume she was in for an OD). I'm not sure I've ever seen that on TV but I appreciate normalizing these interventions
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Chelsea L. Shover, PhD @chelsealshover.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Got (most of) the lab together for annual health services symposium! @morgangodvin.bsky.social @caitlinmolina.medsky.social Best thing about being a PI is building a team. Bright moment in a dark week for US science.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 01/02/2025
It's been a long January, but such a relief! The work doesn't end here though. There's a lot of rebuilding that needs to happen.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 29/01/2025
There's a lot of overwhelming, bad things out there right now But this work deserves to be celebrated. Check out the rad #harmreduction work done by NYC drug checking www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Screenshot of a Drug and Alcohol Dependence Journal article titled "The prevalence of fentanyl in New York City's unregulated drug supply as measured through drug checking offered at syringe service programs." Authors include OG drug checking tech Yarelix Estrada as first author, Jeffrey Sauer, Leonardo Dominguez, Izza Zaidi, Andrew J. Trinidad, Hannah Helmy, and Alex Harocopos
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 29/01/2025
I'm waiting for them to freeze my federal student loans too 😒
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/01/2025
Marco Rubio is suspending the passport applications of trans people. Marco Rubio was confirmed by the Senate unanimously. Every Democrat voted for him.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 26/01/2025
This is incredible and you absolutely should.
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Caitlin Molina @caitlinmolina.medsky.social · 26/01/2025
Rain has started in LA Hopefully it helps with the fires, but be ready for mudslides Check on your unhoused neighbors, esp those near hillsides. Hypothermia is a big risk too.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I just donated 5 vacation days to other staff who need them because of the catastrophic #LAfires. Being #kind feels good.
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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
An amazing @cumedicalschool.bsky.social resident, Matt Westfall, wrote this thoughtful piece in @coloradosun.com on the teen homelessness crisis in Denver. (1/2) coloradosun.com/2025/01/23/o...
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Opinion: Denver has a hidden youth homelessness crisis but we can be a leader in solving the problem nationwide
By connecting a patchwork of service providers, we can create a better version of point-in-time counts.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A handy list of people to call.
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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hey #HoosierSky The NIH provides a TON of funding to Indiana Universities and companies Every $1 spent on NIH funding provides $2.46 of downstream benefit in the form of new discoveries, etc Pausing it even for a short time will have major detriments to science and scientists
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