Christian Arthur

My letter was published in today’s @BostonGlobe. Carine Hajjar’s article argues progressive policies are to blame for Mass & Cass. Blaming harm reduction for M&C is like blaming an Emergency Room for gun violence. Harm reduction is a response to a failure, not the failure.

@LynneSchmidt @rustandmoth Haunting encapsulation of trauma

@maiasz, I'm putting together a reading list for City of Boston Recovery Month. Any recs? (Undoing Drugs already on there)

@nicolewhaat @TheLastofUsHBO Lincoln, MA 🫠 You'll know when you know

sometimes, you return the fish

@PaulHlava @adroitjournal 💙

So happy to have a healthcare poem in the new @adroitjournal 🥳 thanks to the editors and the other AMAZING writers in here, check it out 👇 theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-si…

@csferreira08 Can't wait to read it!

@MyHarmReduction Putting together reading list for City of Boston Recovery Month at this very moment 😩. Will need to circle back with you next year!!

📣My upcoming book "The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-only Addiction Treatment" will be out in Feb 2024!📣 I can email you when it's available for preorder! 🔗docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Also cooking skills are valuable in sector where extra hands are needed to cook for food insecure folks during holidays, etc

@_earth2brittany The dinner rush teaches you flow state

@JDaviesPhD Good nuance

“The medicalisation of everyday problems actually invites people to feel ill and encourages them to live up to their diagnoses….. Attributing one’s difficulties to depression or anxiety can become a self-fulfilling prophecy”. spiked-online.com/2023/08/07/the…

@HalaNAlyan and @MichaelLeeWrite, for the poetry category I'm recommending Twenty-Ninth Year and The Only Worlds We Know. Have any suggestions for poetry or fiction? Especially interested in newish books!

I'm working with some other folks at the City of Boston to put together a reading list for Recovery Month, September. Library will make a little display in the main branch. Have any recommendations? Especially looking for books published in the past year!

Thrilled to share with y'all that I'm hiring 3 new full-time folks to join our research team here at Mass General Hospital / Harvard Med!🥳 Please share widely with your talented friends & colleagues! ✨ Job postings in the thread below.

Hoping these hashtags lead to some reading recommendations for #RecoveryMonth #RecoveryPosse #recovery #harmreduction #overdose #boston #publichealth

@TamiGouveiaMA Awesome!!

And the countdown begins... On July 1st, I will start a new and exciting role. Any guesses where I am heading next? #newchapter

Increasing access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) is one of our most effective tools for preventing overdose deaths. Our new paper in @JSATjournal studied Medicaid expansion’s impact on MOUD treatment plans for housed + unhoused patients: authors.elsevier.com/c/1hG8-AUkM2XP…

@ChristianArthur willing to sell your handle to me?

Bless the plastic brain