Adams Sibley, PhD, MPH

🔓 Emergence of Medetomidine in the Unregulated Drug Supply and Its Association With Hallucinogenic Effects @AdamsSibley, Madigan L. Bedard, Samuel Tobias, Brooke A. Chidgey, Irina G. Phillips, Alice Bell, @nabarund doi.org/10.1111/dar.70… @UNC @ubcspph @UNC_IPRC

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

There will be zero introspection. Liberal narcissism dictates that it must always be someone else's fault. They will scapegoat minorities who failed to fall in line, blame Russia, blame misogyny, blame "irrational" voters who choose candidates based on "emotion" – anything to avoid looking at their own record of failure. They are congenitally incapable of self-criticism.

I GUESS GENOCIDE WASN'T A GOOD ELECTION STRATEGY.

If Harris loses, it will be her fault. Leftists have been warning about this from the beginning. The liberals insisted she was right to do so. Make sure to hold them accountable.

Sending Bill Clinton to say arabs deserve to die then sending in Liz Cheney whose father literally orchestrated the murder of 1.5 million arabs to Michigan probably wasn’t the best strategy

If the Democratic Party loses tomorrows elections to the worst, cruelest, most corrupt, bigoted, misogynistic, anti-worker, anti-environment, vote suppressing, climate denying, book banning GOP in history, will there be an accounting? Will there be a cleaning of the house, discharging the colossal architects who have contracted out their trusteeship to profit driven commercial consultants? Daily wasting billions of campaign dollars on repetitive, vacuous and forgettable advertising so they can receive their 15% commission. Infected through and through with corporatism, the Democratic Party turns its back on unions and progressive civic groups with millions of members and campaigns and curries the favor of the war criminal, war mongering Cheneys and Clintons. Kamala Harris campaigns with them but declines to campaign with the most popular elected official in our country, Senator Bernie Sanders. She’s not sending messages that could have landslided the worst Republican Party in history. -R

One supervised consumption site can prevent 83 new cases of HIV in a single year, saving more than $17 million in future healthcare costs - Canadian Public Health Association. Harm reduction saves lives and money. sudbury.com/local-news/exp…

Are overdoses down and why? Our analysis airing on NPR this morning. With @hcharmreduxxx and Adams Sibley npr.org/2024/09/18/nx-…

The new Opioid Data Lab website is up. Kit ordering, drug checking alerts, and lots of data. Oh, and the occasional blog post... @UNC_IPRC Shortlink: go.unc.edu/news opioiddatalab.ghost.io/stigma-and-lan…

Out now - Protocol for Project RESTART, a stigma resistance text message intervention for people who use drugs researchprotocols.org/2024/1/e59224 @jmirpub

@SenatorBerger Funny how you decry "blatantly partisan processes" then celebrate putting a partisan hack in charge of the jewel of our higher education system.

Congratulations to Lee Roberts on being named the permanent chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has proven himself to be a bold, decisive leader. I look forward to seeing him usher in the next era of excellence for the university.

@UNC Oh, way to fast track this formality-of-a-selection-process before the semester so none of the 40,000 students and faculty who want this racist anywhere near campus could make any noise.

The UNC Board of Governors has elected Lee H. Roberts as #UNC’s 13th chancellor. The entire #UNC community is invited to an event celebrating Roberts' appointment at 2 p.m. today via livestream. Learn more: unc.live/4dCt7CJ

@UNC Search committee: Republican. Systems president: Republican. Chancellor: Republican. Of the 3,100 responses you received, how many were positive on Roberts? 100? No doubt from alumni with no business dictating how the university is run. Shame on you. #keepacademiciaacademic

Search committee: Republican. Systems president: Republican. Chancellor: Republican. Of the 3,100 responses you received, how many were positive on Roberts? 100? No doubt from alumni with no business dictating how the university is run. Shame on you. #keepacademiciaacademic

And he's clearly a shill for the Republican legislature. What happened to keeping politics out of academia? The message you're sending is clear: UNC no longer values academic integrity or freedom. The national and international communities will take notice. 2/3

@UNC You've undermined your credibility by naming Lee Roberts chancellor. The selection process was a formality. He was pushed through before the semester so no students or faculty could make noise. Roberts has NO higher ed experience, bungled the student protest response 1/3

Want to push out drug alerts that are simple to parse? Our team at UNC (NB: I was not involved) created an open-source suite of materials for just this purpose. Designed by health comms experts. @nabarund doi.org/10.17615/gtye-…

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My statement on voting against H.R. 6090: