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Morgan Godvin

@morgangodvin.bsky.social
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Drug policy. Prisons and jails. Journalism. Research. Harm reduction. Veterans. Heart in Portland, skin under San Diego sun.

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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
MUTUAL AID REQUEST Delaney is trying to rebuild after living through -- and then leaving -- domestic violence. Now, she's essentially homeless and starting over from nothing. This is my friend's cousin, the GoFundMe is legit and 100% goes to her. To share is to support: gofund.me/4506b64cd
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Donate to Help Delaney Rebuild After Domestic Violence, organized by Gillian Graham
We’re raising money to help our dear cousin Delaney as she struggles to co… Gillian Graham needs your support for Help Delaney Rebuild After Domestic Violence
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Tomorrow 10am PST/1pm EST I'm speaking at @amersa.org with several other folks on involuntary commitment and treatment. amersa.org/project/amer...
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AMERSA Advocacy Webinar - AMERSA
AMERSA, founded in 1976, is a non-profit professional organization whose mission is to improve health and well-being through interdisciplinary leadership in substance use education, research, clinical...
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Alex Hissong - Not Dead Yet, Check Again Tomorrow @hissong4mo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I urge you to be precise with your language when sharing information about kratom and derivatives. We need regulation but not blanket bans. bsky.app/profile/morg...
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Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
On this edition of Century: The Math of Fentanyl - my conversation with @morgangodvin.bsky.social kboo.fm/media/133979... #SupportPublicMedia #SupportCommunityRadio #SupportKBOO
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The Math of Fentanyl
On this edition of Century: The Math of Fentanyl. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Morgan Godvin, a researcher, writer, harm reduction advocate, and co-author an article entitled “Estimati...
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Kratom is not the same thing as 7-Oh. Kratom = plant, safe, long used. 7Oh = lab-made with deceptive marketing, causing unwitting physical dependencies. Read about the differences here, backed by data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Kratom poisonings soar in US as experts blame synthetic versions and caution against bans
Experts say natural kratom may offer benefits and blame synthetic derivatives for surge in poisonings noted by CDC
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Normalize taking methadone at the United Nations! The 69th Commission on Narcotic Drugs has wrapped. The US is still being the US. International diplomacy is incredible and very far from obsolete. It may save us yet. PS - Austria is the 17th country I’ve traveled to while on MOUD.
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
What’s a good venue to host a research symposium in Salem, Oregon? ~75 person capacity. Don’t say Pringle Hall, it’s booked.
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Any substance use journal editors lurking around here? I have an idea for a viewpoint on something that’s been popping up in the press with increasing frequency, but would love to run it by someone!
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Is possession of a firearm a necessary prerequisite to having the government respect your rights, or a license for said government to execute you on the spot? I am very confused by the “don’t tread on me” crowd suddenly being anti-handgun..?
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Unemployed at 25, Nick had spent a decade bouncing between this gated enclave and at least 18 rehab facilities paid for by his parents, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner.” Treatment should *work.* I am infuriated by this stat. US treatment is so broken. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Inside Nick Reiner’s life of privilege, pills and pain
Friends say Reiner bounced constantly between rehab centers and his family’s Los Angeles mansion, where he is accused of killing his parents, Rob and Michele.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good. In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric. It’s not. /1
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They've arrested people on less evidence before
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
What happened to my generation? War, death, and addiction became more commonplace than prosperity. More of my friends went to Iraq than to college after high school. This documentary is incredible and is one part of the “why” the US experienced diverged so far. youtu.be/RIWfH3iEgXU?...
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Iraq War Veterans, 20 Years Later: ‘I Don’t Know How to Explain the War to Myself’ | Op-Docs
YouTube video by New York Times Opinion
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Back on October 3, I gave a briefing to Congressional staffers and warned about precisely this. Here’s a short excerpt from that briefing.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
He isn’t right often, but Rand Paul is right about Venezuela policy.
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
The European Union Drugs Agency’s Drug School is a jam-packed educational session covering all things drugs and drug policy. The Winter session is online in early March. Registrations are open! www.euda.europa.eu/event/2026/0...
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This week, I officially started my study visit at the European Union Drugs Agency in Lisbon, Portugal. This is a three-month collaborative research effort between Drug Checking Los Angeles at UCLA and EUDA, focusing on opioids.
Morgan, smiling, wearing a black sweater and orange pants, standing in front of a building’s wall with a sign that reads “EUDA - European Union Drugs Agency - agência da União Europeia sobre drogas.”
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Max Huntsman, the inspector general tasked with holding the LA Sheriff’s Department to account, is retiring… and going out with a bang in this letter 🔥
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/11/2025
“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.” By @keribla.bsky.social
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As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Drug Checking Los Angeles makes a guest appearance in this great piece in the NYT today about the misguided war on harm reduction, where the casualties will be your kids and neighbors. 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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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Everyone wants to talk about the cost of doing business in America. But no one is mentioning that anything “Made in the USA” didn’t just pay to make the item, but also for the *healthcare costs* of workers’ entire families. We will never be able to compete.
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Politico @politico.com · 08/08/2025
BREAKING: Drug cartels are feared to be among those that obtained sensitive court data due to a sweeping breach of the federal judiciary’s case filing system.
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Cartels may be able to target witnesses after major court hack
There is growing concern that cartels and foreign actors could use the stolen data to identify informants and foil criminal probes.
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Melody Glenn, MD MFA @melodyglenn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Thank you, everyone who came out to hear the brilliant @maxjordan.bsky.social, @morgangodvin.bsky.social @chelsealshover.bsky.social, and me chat about #LiberateMethadone. It shouldn't be easier to get the poison than the cure. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781015...
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
“Mother of Methadone” book talk this Thursday in Culver City. I’m a panelist and finishing the book and loving it, it’s going to be a great talk. Learn how history shaped policy, and why we are so dysfunctional, hear me rant, and more! 7/24 at 7pm www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...
Flyer for a book talk on the opioid crisis, “Mother of Methadone” by Dr. Melody Glenn, joined by panelists Morgan Godvin and Dr. Max Jordan Nguemeni.
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Come here me, a methadone patient, rant as a panelist this Thursday in Culver City! www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Los Angeles people: Come see me speaking at a book talk with @maxjordan.bsky.social and “Mother of Methadone” author @melodyglenn.bsky.social. I’m on methadone, it’s gonna be a lively chat! Thursday July 24, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Kremlin also didn’t want to have to explain what happened between 1939-41 under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact when they allied themselves with the Nazis to carve up Poland & other countries. That’s why Russian war memorials say WWII happened between 1941-45 instead of 1939-45. They lied in stone.
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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact - Wikipedia
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Harm reduction works! A “bad batch” of what I infer to have been sold as fentanyl caused 27 overdoses in Baltimore, ZERO DEATHS. Everyone was reversed with naloxone. A few years ago, this would’ve been a very different story. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/pu...
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Mass overdose in Baltimore sends 27 to hospitals but no deaths so far
As of Friday morning, there were no fatalities but 27 people had been hospitalized for suspected overdoses, according to Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 05/07/2025
A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...
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How Volunteer Patrols Are Working to Protect San Diego Immigrant Communities From ICE
In response to mass deportation threats and mixed messages from county leaders on federal cooperation, San Diego organizers are taking action to inform residents of ICE activity.
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Dear Americans: Medicare for All is not nationalized healthcare, it’s single payer, like Canada. The government pays for private doctors to provide care via fee-for-service. National healthcare is the VA system, where payer and provider are both the govt, and doctors are salaried govt employees.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
on the last day of the United States, when this country has finally descended into civil war, i will do a thread on how to dress for summer
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Rick Aaron @rickaaron.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Happy 249th Birthday America. You don’t look a day over 1938 Germany.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
My sophomore year roommate at UT was a white girl born in Malawi to her white missionary parents. She checked “African American” on her app. Does the Times want to blow the lid off of this scandal? DM me booboo
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Celebrated my freedom to shoot people and go into medical debt (but not my freedom from being shot or going into medical debt) by going to a political-prison-turned-museum documenting the fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The “unquestionable certainties” that undergirded the regime are familiar.1/
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I haven’t had a car payment since 2012. I just bought a “new” car, replacing my 2008 Prius with a 2012 Prius C. This coming from the crowd that are baffled at how I can afford to travel. One of your monthly car payments is my round trip to Europe boo, now multiply that by years!
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Presenting on data that shows an average fentanyl user uses the equivalent of 9,600+ milligrams of IV morphine per day at #cpdd25 in New Orleans!
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
When are police aggressive, vs when are they civil? When they first had a warrant for my arrest, they knew I was a 24 yr old girl, former EMT, who always showed up for meetings with my probation officer, whose only “crime” had been being found in possession of the drug to which I was addicted. 1/
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Trump and his followers really do just want small government. Small enough to fit under a crown.
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
If impenetrable logic would’ve won the war, my friends, we’d be champs. Instead it’s us over here with these grammatically pristine treatises, identifying their unequivocal hypocrisy, and then them just screaming personal insults at us rather than responding to policy issues + yet somehow winning.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10/06/2025
oh, hey, it's portland 2020.
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Morgan Godvin @morgangodvin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Make people so afraid to show up for court that they don’t, then arrest and deport them for missing court, as if you didn’t orchestrate that from the beginning. 1/
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