Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW
Harm Reductionist. Drug Policy Reformer. Writer. Speaker. Lapsed Academic. Researcher-Advocate. Brown. She/Her/Dr.
@premthakker.bsky.social
reporter @zeteo.com Any tips or info you’d like to share? Signal premthakker.35 Prem@zeteonews.com https://linktr.ee/premthakker
@melissagiragrant.com
staff writer, The New Republic // A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (Little, Brown) out in 2026 // PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso) // member, NewsGuild of NY » email: melissa@melissagira.com » press releases/lists: mggrant@tnr.com » Signal: melissagira.01 (link below)
@filtermag.bsky.social
Coverage of drug use, drug policy and human rights from a dedicated nonprofit. Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/3wkzdcv8
@alexmacmadu.bsky.social
Asst Prof @Brown_SPH (epidemiology) and member of the @pph_collective | Harm reduction researcher | WV native 🤠 | she/her
@nimashirazi.bsky.social
@pphcollective.bsky.social
Public health research that is people centered, place oriented & data driven. We study drugs, infectious diseases + intersecting epidemics. Based at the Brown University School of Public Health.
@uviccisur.bsky.social
Promoting health, reducing harm. Official account of UVic's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research.
@ajdaajournal.bsky.social
A venue for researchers to disseminate clinically relevant research findings and innovative perspectives in the field of addiction. Publisher @tandfresearch.bsky.social Learn more: linktr.ee/ajdaasocialmedia
@biancatylek.bsky.social
Executive Director at Worth Rises | The prison industry hates me, it’s mutual | Views my own
@hillpharmd.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ PittPharmacy | Executive Director @ PittPERU | Board @ AMERSA & JACCP
@cduhr.bsky.social
The Center for Drug Use & HIV Research is dedicated to increasing the understanding of the drug use-HIV epidemic, particularly among high-risk people -NIDA P30DA011041.
@brittanyepage.bsky.social
Eager lifelong learner. Therapy is political. Poverty is a policy choice. Page Perspective on YouTube/Co-host I Doubt It Podcast. https://linktr.ee/brittanyepage
@julesnetherland.bsky.social
Sociology PhD, drug policy reform enthusiast. Resistance as self care and self care as resistance. Opinions my own.
@phscss.bsky.social
Housing, harm reduction and healthcare in Vancouver & Victoria, BC
@maggiedara.bsky.social
Social Worker and reproductive justice advocate interested in perinatal mental health- PMH-C. Fundraising for DCAF: https://fund.nnaf.org/fundraiser/6310041
@flordepascua.bsky.social
Harm reduction, social justice, self determination. Sólo el pueblo salva al pueblo. Boricua aunque naciera en la luna. ¡Pá Lante!
@msthpetra.bsky.social
#Activist fighting deadly drug policy. 🏳️⚧️ mom and ally. Co-founder momsstoptheharm.com Guest on Treaty 6 #HarmReduction #TransRightsAreHumanRights #YouAreSafeWithMe #Canada #Alberta
@dougmcvay.bsky.social
He/him. Public policy researcher/analyst, journalist. Editor, DrugPolicyFacts.org and HealthSystemsFacts.org. Producer/Host, Free Culture Radio https://kboo.fm/program/free-culture-radio and Century of Lies https://drugtruth.net/century-of-lies
@drugpolicyfacts.bsky.social
Drug Policy Facts is a project of the Real Reporting Foundation. We provide excerpts of current information and statistics with complete citations and links to the source materials. https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/
@hilaryagro.bsky.social
Resources here! ➡️ linktr.ee/hilaryagro Anthropology PhD candidate at UBC. I think capitalism is bad and dr*gs are good. Land Back. Is Gaeilgeoir mé 💚 she/her
@pwud-pride.bsky.social
Harm reduction & home baking Prof of Inclusion Health Sociology, LSHTM Current projects: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/ihost https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/sipp History: http://youtu.be/0H51Nk-I7PA
@grinspoon.bsky.social
Primary Care Doc. & #cannabis specialist Harvard Med. Substack: https://drpetergrinspoon.substack.com Book: Seeing Through the Smoke (about weed) #addiction #psychedelics
@tpstx.bsky.social
@mjmilloy.bsky.social
Epidemiologist; Research scientist and associate professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Nations; Working to improve the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs.
@xjusticexpeace.bsky.social
queer latine award-winning anti-oppression educator | SEEKING RADICALLY LOVING ALTERNATIVES | Sexual Violence Prevention & Transformative Justice | #FreePalestine | SUPPORT Legal Fund https://www.gofundme.com/f/justiceforjavier-legal-costs-for-human-rights
@ppponline.org
A Philadelphia-based harm reduction and public health nonprofit promoting health, empowerment, and safety for communities affected by substance use and poverty. www.ppponline.org
@alex-b-collins.bsky.social
Medical social scientist studying drug use, overdose, and housing | Assistant Professor in Community Health at Tufts University | lover of trails & basketball | she/her
@drugpolicy.org
The nation’s leading org promoting drug policies grounded in evidence, health, equity, & human rights. #NoMoreDrugWar. ED: @kassandrafred.bsky.social https://drugpolicy.org/
@kwardvancouver.bsky.social
once called « Canada's only public intellectual » drug policy resercher & advisor ⁕ historian ⁕ artist ⁕ schemer ⁕ disorganizer institute for the history of possible futures https://free-futures-society.org/
@prisonpolicy.org
Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
@alexvitale.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Coordinator Policing and Social Justice Project. Author The End of Policing.
@hebagowayed.bsky.social
Sociology Prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
@julsbudau.bsky.social
Teddy’s handler, living in BC and working in research/writing re: overdose and prison health. Local OAT/prescribed safer supply patient loudmouth. Widowed. Follow for drug policy, punk stuff, my dog, trying to get by in a bad economy.
@truthout.org
Independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues. Support our work: truthout.org/donate Get our daily email: truthout.org/subscribe Follow us: go.bsky.app/9WsnfPT
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@mayaschenwar.bsky.social
Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. Board president, Truthout. Co-editor “We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition” Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name” Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke mayaschenwar.com
@traceyh.bsky.social
Author of “The Big Fix:Hope After Heroin”, mother, person in recovery, activist, harm reduction, rescue animals.
@drugdatadecoded.ca
Drug Prohibition Politics: www.drugdatadecoded.ca Stories at APTN, The Breach, Alberta Views PhD Microbio UofA Brutalized by CPS @ UofC 🍉 Banner: FOIP request to UCP government for emails on my name, fully redacted. Icon: Eye Guy villain of Power Rangers
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
@rnbluthenthal.bsky.social
Husband, father, Interim Chair, & Distinguished Professor, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at Keck School of Medicine, USC. Fan of UCSC, harm reduction, & helping out. (he/him/his)
@kassandrafred.bsky.social
Executive Director @DrugPolicyAlliance - Views are my own (she/her) 🎨: “Equality in Bloom” by Micah Terry
@jamielivingston.bsky.social
Criminologist; critical work at the mental health, substance use, & criminal legal intersection Kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia) He/Him 🍁 ⚖️ 🥌 💉 😺 💜 www.justmentalhealth.ca
@amandalatimore.bsky.social
@zoedodd.bsky.social
Anti drug war activist, anti-capitalist, harm reduction. Co-organizer with Toronto Overdose Prevention Society. Committed to living in a better world. Free 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/saveoursites
@tdbrothers.bsky.social
MD, PhD, FRCPC | general internal medicine & addiction medicine doctor | social epidemiologist & health services researcher | Nova Scotian
@maapmass.bsky.social
Supporting + organizing with unhoused people in Boston, Cambridge & MA. Drop-in, material aid, sweep support. Self-identified & evidence based transformative solutions. Never criminalization or forced “treatment”. #StopTheSweeps https://linktr.ee/maapmas