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Ju Park, PhD

@drjupark.bsky.social
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Assist. Professor. Overdose and drug policy researcher at Brown University. www.harmreductionlab.com

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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Couldn’t agree more. Deeply concerning times To Address Overdose, The U.S. Should Ramp Up Proven Interventions at Home, Not Performative Attacks Abroad. www.networkforphl.org/news-insight...
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To Address Overdose, The U.S. Should Ramp Up Proven Interventions at Home, Not Performative Attacks Abroad. - Network for Public Health Law
President Trump and members of his administration have justified recent deadly assaults on civilians abroad by claiming that the boats they were in were carrying illicit drugs and that the alleged dru...
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Could Strain Universities and Schools www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
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Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Could Strain Universities and Schools
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Another way to promote brain drain in America 😠 www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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Universities May Face Huge Costs From Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee
President Trump's surprise announcement of a $100,000 fee for employers seeking to hire new workers on H-1B visas poses another financial threat to American universities.
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The Philippines tried this and it was ruled by the ICC as an international human rights violation. This is a dangerous plan. Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Kill People He Deems Narco-Terrorists www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
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Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Kill People He Deems Narco-Terrorists
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The recent rhetoric around homelessness and SUD has been concerning. Thank you @nytimes.com for helping to clarify some misconceptions! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/h...
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Cities Move Away From Strategies That Make Drug Use Safer
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Everyday harm reduction workers put their livelihoods at risk. What can we do as a community to stop the harms associated with drug policies that fuel the mass incarceration epidemic? filtermag.org/tennessee-ha...
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Tennessee Harm Reductionist Faces Charges for Drug Checking
Police tailed her after she picked up the sample, she tells Filter. After two nights in jail, she plans to defend drug checking in court.
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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Definitely understudied!
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An Invisible Crisis: Brain Injury From Non-Fatal Overdose
People who survive overdoses are far more likely to have a brain injury than the general population. I've been wondering if that includes me.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/07/2025
President Trump signed into law bipartisan legislation permanently classifying fentanyl-like substances among the most dangerous drugs — an effort to increase punishments for drug traffickers and curb the opioid epidemic.
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Trump signs bill with harsher penalties for dealers of fentanyl variants
The legislation does not extend to addiction treatment, which the Trump administration has cut in its broader quest to curb federal spending.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“While Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s health secretary, makes a spectacle of his plans to make America healthier (a laudable goal), in actuality, the administration is kneecapping the very infrastructure that would make that feasible and is instead enacting policies that will compromise health.”
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Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
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Defector @defector.com · 09/06/2025
An interview with a terminated analyst at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: defector.com/an-interview...
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An Interview With A Terminated Analyst At The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Administration | Defector
Joy Binion learned that she had lost her job as a social science analyst at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, on April 1. So she posted on Facebook that she…
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Drug Policy Alliance @drugpolicy.org · 13/06/2025
Medicaid’s the largest payer of addiction and mental health services in the U.S. and used at higher rates in red states. Trump's budget bill put these communities at greater risk of losing these lifesaving services at a time when they’re needed most. www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/m...
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Medicaid cuts would devastate mental health, substance use treatment services in red states
Though behavioral health conditions do not discriminate between Democrats and Republicans, the Medicaid cuts may be particularly damaging for residents of red states.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/06/2025
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of a legal maelstrom after the Trump administration mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, has returned to the U.S., Attorney General Pam Bondi said. trib.al/d3PBfr0
Behind a blurred image of a woman’s face is a stylized sign of a man’s face and the word KILMAR. A headline reads: "Abrego Garcia Is Returned to U.S. From El Salvador." Photo by Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times.
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Help us free Paige! She is a wonderful PhD student and harm reduction worker in TN. Please donate if you are able www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
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Help Us Free Paige!
Help 901 Harm Reduction reach their goal by donating or sharing with your friends.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/05/2025
Harvard has just sued the Trump administration less than 24 hours after losing the ability to enroll foreign students. They are seeking a temporary restraining order immediately. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
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Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Move to Bar International Students
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Super concerning news
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CNN @cnn.com · 14/05/2025
US drug overdose deaths dropped last year by 27%, but experts warn federal cuts could threaten that progress
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US drug overdose deaths saw an unprecedented drop in 2024, but federal cuts could threaten momentum | CNN
Drug overdose deaths in the United States made an unprecedented drop to the lowest they’ve been in five years, according to a new federal government estimate released Wednesday.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Thank you Jan Hoffman for featuring our letter in your story! @drugpolicynerds.bsky.social @chadsabora.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/h...
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Trump’s Focus on Punishing Drug Dealers May Hurt Drug Users Trying to Quit
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 13/05/2025
America is intentionally squandering our global scientific advantage by persecuting academics and researchers. There is beauty and wonder in the quest for scientific understanding, and we should be helping that curiosity bloom, not crushing it under jackboots. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This Open Letter from addiction and mental health experts was sent late Monday evening to congress! Major to SAMHSA, CDC and HRSA are unacceptable #fentanyl @jencarroll.bsky.social @chadsabora.bsky.social @brownpublichealth.bsky.social @defendpublichealth.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...
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Experts warn Congress cuts to addiction funding will mean more overdose deaths
A broad coalition of addiction experts wants Congress to maintain healthcare funding for the nation's response to fentanyl and other street drugs.
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Justice prevails! www.reuters.com/world/us/tuf...
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Tufts student detained by US immigration authorities must be released, judge rules
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to release a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been held for over six weeks in a Louisiana immigration detention facility after she co-wrote an opinion piece criticizing her school's response to Israel's war in Gaza.
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Go Baltimore Banner! @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
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Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis
The Baltimore Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses.
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I am extremely proud to be a member of the Brown community 💛 www.brown.edu/brown-research
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Research Builds Our Future
With discoveries in areas ranging from health and medicine, to science and technology, to security, engineering and economics, researchers at Brown generate real solutions for real people today and in...
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Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"All 7 test strips reliably detected the presence of xylazine, even at very small doses and under extreme conditions," reports Sydney Sauer of a new study. "However, they also frequently produced false positives when exposed to a range of common drugs."
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Test Strips Do Tell You If Xylazine Is Present, But Prone to False Positives
Researchers find that xylazine test strips are powerful harm reduction tools, but have some significant limitations to be aware of.
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
www.change.org/p/free-rumey...
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Sign the Petition
Free Rumeysa Ozturk Now!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/04/2025
Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement, was freed from federal custody on Wednesday after ICE tried to rescind his green card and deport him. nyti.ms/4iGIa0m
Mohsen Mahdawi wearing a keffiyeh scarf as he stands atop a platform, surrounded by people. The text reads: "Columbia Student Who Was Arrested at Citizenship Interview Is Freed." Photo by Bing Guan for The New York Times.
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Let’s not lose the hard-won progress of the past four years. #naloxone is a lifesaving and cost-effective intervention 🙏 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
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Trump budget draft ends Narcan program and other addiction measures.
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I love it when family and friends share interesting articles on #opioid addiction with me! Keep them coming! www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Why Has America Ignored Its Best Addiction Treatment?
Buprenorphine can stop cravings for opioids, yet its uptake in the U.S. has stagnated.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 14/04/2025
Van Hollen’s demand: Bring back deported Maryland father or I’m going to El Salvador www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
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Van Hollen’s demand: Bring back deported Maryland father or I’m going to El Salvador
The senator’s declaration comes on the heels of news over the weekend from Trump officials confirming that the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, remains confined in a prison in El Salvador.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 13/04/2025
US quiet on mistakenly deported Maryland man, despite Supreme Court decision
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US quiet on mistakenly deported Maryland man, despite Supreme Court decision
The Trump administration is doubling down on its decision not to tell a federal court whether it has any plans to repatriate a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month.
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STAT @statnews.com · 02/04/2025
A coalition of advocacy groups is pressing the Trump administration with an unlikely request: Use the U.S. DOGE Service to make methadone more widely available. www.statnews.com/2025/04/02/a...
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Use DOGE to deregulate methadone as addiction medicine, coalition urges Trump
Advocates of addiction treatment say DOGE’s efficiency goals should include easing regulations that lead patients to dub methadone “liquid handcuffs.”
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Filter | harm reduction journalism @filtermag.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“Medicaid is key to addressing substance use disorders and the overdose epidemic," an expert tells Alexander Lekhtman. "It’s the single largest payer of both mental health and SUD care.” Of 72 million Medicaid recipients, one in five have a diagnosed substance use disorder:
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GOP Plans to Slash Medicaid Would Worsen Overdose Crisis
Of 72 million Medicaid recipients, one in five have a diagnosed substance use disorder. All are threatened with losing access to vital care.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
What really happened in Oregon #decriminalization www.cato.org/research-bri...
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Ju Park, PhD @drjupark.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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