July 2012
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Oxford University changes dress code to meet needs... →
Oxford University has rewritten the laws governing its strict academic dress code following concerns that they were unfair towards transgender students.
Under the new regulations, students taking exams or attending formal occasions will no longer have to wear ceremonial clothing that is specific to their gender.
- Well done Oxford.
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Meet The Drug Dealer Who Helps Addicts Quit →
NPR has featured a couple of good harm reduction-based articles recently.
Meet The Drug Dealer Who Helps Addicts Quit: Talks about buprenorphine diversion (buying it in the street) as a result of inadequate access through traditional health care channels. Nice to see this story framed as a positive thing drug users and drug dealers are doing to take care of themselves and each other.
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On Saturday, June 23rd, at Make the Road New...
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WatchGreat video from YouthRISE pointing out the hypocrisy of drug criminalization in the name of protecting youth. It succinctly outlines the problems with current drug policies, the damaging effects on youth and demands change.
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“Anyone who has been through rehab or any other type of addiction treatment in...”
– Why Addiction Treatment Is a Disaster, By Maia Szalavitz, the fix
- Interesting read from the great Maia Szalavitz about a recent evaluation of drug treatment programs in the US.
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Drug abuse: Opana overtakes OxyContin in U.S. →
What did they think was going to happen? Lots of complaining in this article about how people are switching to Opana, but no critical look at how our drug policies and ill-conceived supply-side interventions like making Oxys hard to “tamper” with do absolutely nothing but harm people who use drugs. Anyone with a brain could have told them if they make it hard to use Oxycontin, people...
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Call Congress today about overdose prevention!
We need your help! Can you make one call to Congress today asking your Representative to sign on to a letter calling for an overdose prevention campaign?
We can stop the overdose epidemic, but we need government action. In the U.S., 40 people die every day from prescription painkiller overdoses. This is more than a tragedy — it’s a public health crisis!
Make one call to get...
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Florida's worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept... →
cphfoundation:
July 9, 2012
We keep finding stories of how cuts to public health are backfiring. Given all the politics going on, this line of the Palm Beach Post story made me chuckle; “The CDC sent a $275,000 grant to help pay for the staff needed to contain [the TB outbreak].”
So, let me get this right…
First, Florida’s elected officials drastically cut their state health department...
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“Overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) has fundamentally changed...”
– Family members get involved in OD prevention - Maya Doe-Simkins for the Overdose Prevention Alliance
For more on family members and overdose prevention, visit Learn to Cope, “a support group for parents and family members dealing with a loved one addicted to heroin, Oxycontin and other...
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“More likely to be embedded in new media than their racial peer groups, Black...”
– Mark Anthony Neal, The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Black Youth and Digital Social Capital — on the landmark new report from Cathy Cohen & Joseph Kahne, Participatory Politics: New Media and Youth Political Action [PDF]. For more on the project, check out the Youth and Participatory...
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Seventeen Magazine Gives Girls Images of Real... →
Win! After over 84,000 people signed Julia’s petition and she and her fellow SPARK Summit activists hand-delivered the petitions to the executive editor of Seventeen, the magazine has made a commitment to not alter the body size or face shape of the girls and models in the magazine and to feature a diverse range of beauty in its pages.
Julia’s message to all her...
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