Yes that Lisa
@rhodylabgirl.bsky.social
Lab lover. Harm reductionist. Policy wonk. Word nerd. She/her.
Woonsocket consistently fails to take effective action to addess the multiple crises facing their own community members. This week, they will vote on an ordinance to further harm unhoused residents. Criminalizing neighbors doesn’t solve homelessness- HOUSING does. Sign, share, stand up, fight back!
Tell the Woonsocket City Council: Don't Criminalize Homelessness!
Most of us are one medical emergency or a few missed paychecks away from housing insecurity. Unhoused folks are our family, friends, and neighbors. Please sign @rebuildwoon's petition at http://rebuil...
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May 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Woonsocket consistently fails to take effective action to addess the multiple crises facing their own community members. This week, they will vote on an ordinance to further harm unhoused residents. Criminalizing neighbors doesn’t solve homelessness- HOUSING does. Sign, share, stand up, fight back!
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Susan's son, Tyler, sought help for his addiction. Many barriers were put in the way like being blocked from treatment and medication due to stigma and denial by insurance. Now families like Susan’s are demanding health solutions to save lives. Join them: engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/famil...
April 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Susan's son, Tyler, sought help for his addiction. Many barriers were put in the way like being blocked from treatment and medication due to stigma and denial by insurance. Now families like Susan’s are demanding health solutions to save lives. Join them: engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/famil...
The fish doorbell is open for the season. You’re welcome. visdeurbel.nl/en/
The Fish Doorbell — The Fish Doorbell
Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! This alerts our lock operator to let the fish through. The Fish Doorbell is in Utrecht, NL.
visdeurbel.nl
April 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The fish doorbell is open for the season. You’re welcome. visdeurbel.nl/en/
Dear ‘journalists’ - the police report is not the article.
Listen to actually qualified people like Dr. Marino instead of adding to the problem.
(Although if you do want to smoke anything, RI does have a safe place for you!)
Listen to actually qualified people like Dr. Marino instead of adding to the problem.
(Although if you do want to smoke anything, RI does have a safe place for you!)
Police in Rhode Island are saying someone died from fentanyl-laced cannabis based on preliminary drug testing done by the police, and I just want people to remember law enforcement is not qualified to perform drug testing or determine cause of death. It helps nobody to create unfounded drug panics.
April 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Dear ‘journalists’ - the police report is not the article.
Listen to actually qualified people like Dr. Marino instead of adding to the problem.
(Although if you do want to smoke anything, RI does have a safe place for you!)
Listen to actually qualified people like Dr. Marino instead of adding to the problem.
(Although if you do want to smoke anything, RI does have a safe place for you!)
My latest on the tangible evils of capitalist healthcare. #HealthSky
Lisa Peterson on Substack
It’s getting to be the time in the legislative session where Committee hearings are packed with both bills and with witnesses waiting to testify. Yesterday’s House Health & Human Services agenda inclu...
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April 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
My latest on the tangible evils of capitalist healthcare. #HealthSky
My FIL died this morning. We knew he was dying, so I worked with my voice coach on one of his favorite songs. I sang it to him yesterday, and he opened his eyes and tried to talk. I don’t know exactly what he was saying but I knew he heard me.
Guess what the song was?
Live your best life, Valerie!
Guess what the song was?
Live your best life, Valerie!
March 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
My FIL died this morning. We knew he was dying, so I worked with my voice coach on one of his favorite songs. I sang it to him yesterday, and he opened his eyes and tried to talk. I don’t know exactly what he was saying but I knew he heard me.
Guess what the song was?
Live your best life, Valerie!
Guess what the song was?
Live your best life, Valerie!
Update on my APRA request. The gov’s office denied having custody of any records related to the decision to force providers into paper credit cards (paper and mailing = cost to taxpayers, running the cards = cost to providers). On to the DOA. Someone is making $$ off of this and it’s not any of us.
March 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Update on my APRA request. The gov’s office denied having custody of any records related to the decision to force providers into paper credit cards (paper and mailing = cost to taxpayers, running the cards = cost to providers). On to the DOA. Someone is making $$ off of this and it’s not any of us.
Well I guess I’m going to try to find out. APRA submitted, stay tuned!
Which we will be charged to use by our card processing company.
No prior notice and apparently no choice. Just foisted upon us. Who made this decision? And who’s getting their pockets lined as a result? @steveahlquist.bsky.social
No prior notice and apparently no choice. Just foisted upon us. Who made this decision? And who’s getting their pockets lined as a result? @steveahlquist.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Well I guess I’m going to try to find out. APRA submitted, stay tuned!
Fentanyl is not the problem. The racist, classist war on people who use drugs is the problem. And we need to respond to this EO with as much backlash as we can. Tell your elected officials that we need EVIDENCE BASED drug policy to save lives.
Trump to declare 'illicit' fentanyl 'Weapon of Mass Destruction,' per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fentanyl is not the problem. The racist, classist war on people who use drugs is the problem. And we need to respond to this EO with as much backlash as we can. Tell your elected officials that we need EVIDENCE BASED drug policy to save lives.
So the State of Rhode Island, where behavioral health providers are hanging on by a thread, has changed the way they will pay out grants. Instead of just, um, putting the money in our bank via ACH, they will send us paper credit cards from JPMorgan.
March 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
So the State of Rhode Island, where behavioral health providers are hanging on by a thread, has changed the way they will pay out grants. Instead of just, um, putting the money in our bank via ACH, they will send us paper credit cards from JPMorgan.
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Happy Thursday!
March 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Happy Thursday!
I’m going to try to write some things that reflect the absolute absurdity of our current healthcare system. I promise it’s even more harmful than you think. #HealthSky #MedSky
Lisa Peterson on Substack
I spend a lot of time thinking about and fighting for access to good healthcare, particularly mental health and substance use treatment. I’m going to try to get into a routine of sharing some of the d...
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March 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I’m going to try to write some things that reflect the absolute absurdity of our current healthcare system. I promise it’s even more harmful than you think. #HealthSky #MedSky
Someone just came to my house and left a single beer on my front step. Happy St. Paddy’s Eve!
March 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Someone just came to my house and left a single beer on my front step. Happy St. Paddy’s Eve!
RIAAP is a volunteer org consisting of counselors, educators, and allied health care professionals who specialize in addiction prevention, treatment, recovery support, and education. Facing unprecedented challenges, we need YOUR help to support our work. And who doesn’t need a laugh? #DrugSky
March 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
RIAAP is a volunteer org consisting of counselors, educators, and allied health care professionals who specialize in addiction prevention, treatment, recovery support, and education. Facing unprecedented challenges, we need YOUR help to support our work. And who doesn’t need a laugh? #DrugSky
Drug use is morally neutral and stilettos are a bad choice for running.
The message you should take away from Elon’s rumored ketamine habit isn’t that ketamine is bad.
It’s that all drugs, including ketamine, are useful in some contexts and harmful in others.
If you ran a marathon in stilettos and it went poorly, trying to ban stilettos would be a bizarre reaction.
It’s that all drugs, including ketamine, are useful in some contexts and harmful in others.
If you ran a marathon in stilettos and it went poorly, trying to ban stilettos would be a bizarre reaction.
March 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Drug use is morally neutral and stilettos are a bad choice for running.
Here at the RI Senate HHS asking to eliminate the ‘sunset clause’ on a historic, lifesaving program. Timely coverage from @marilenamarchetti.bsky.social @filtermag.bsky.social
Inside Rhode Island’s Pioneering Overdose Prevention Center
Filter sits down for an extensive interview with the co-director of the nation's first state-sanctioned OPC, which just began operations.
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March 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Here at the RI Senate HHS asking to eliminate the ‘sunset clause’ on a historic, lifesaving program. Timely coverage from @marilenamarchetti.bsky.social @filtermag.bsky.social
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Worst. Episode. EVER.
February 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Worst. Episode. EVER.
Hey can’t we all use a laugh these days? What if you could ALSO support the RI Association for Addiction Professionals? That’s what we call a win-win!
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www.funny4funds.com/events/rhode...
February 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Hey can’t we all use a laugh these days? What if you could ALSO support the RI Association for Addiction Professionals? That’s what we call a win-win!
www.funny4funds.com/events/rhode...
www.funny4funds.com/events/rhode...
In the last 3 days, we’ve gotten about 40 clawbacks from @optumhealth.bsky.social
It appears they can’t manage to correctly process claims that bridge a new year. Why is that the provider’s problem? Because there is no accountability for these organizations who ‘manage’ our benefits.
It appears they can’t manage to correctly process claims that bridge a new year. Why is that the provider’s problem? Because there is no accountability for these organizations who ‘manage’ our benefits.
February 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
In the last 3 days, we’ve gotten about 40 clawbacks from @optumhealth.bsky.social
It appears they can’t manage to correctly process claims that bridge a new year. Why is that the provider’s problem? Because there is no accountability for these organizations who ‘manage’ our benefits.
It appears they can’t manage to correctly process claims that bridge a new year. Why is that the provider’s problem? Because there is no accountability for these organizations who ‘manage’ our benefits.
Mark Patinkin has been unreadable for decades, his paper is a joke, and if you haven’t already dropped the @providencejournal.bsky.social this should do it for you.
Philip Eil: A response to Mark Patinkin’s disgraceful ProJo column
"The column is so self-evidently bad that criticism almost feels redundant. But it was published, and so I feel compelled to publish a response."
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Mark Patinkin has been unreadable for decades, his paper is a joke, and if you haven’t already dropped the @providencejournal.bsky.social this should do it for you.
I am very, very worried about flying at the end of the month.
Japan Airlines flight hits tail of parked Delta plane at Seattle SeaTac Airport
A taxiing Japan Airlines flight hit the tail of a parked Delta plane at Seattle SeaTac Airport on Wednesday, the airport said.
abcnews.go.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I am very, very worried about flying at the end of the month.
Governor McKee is killing people with his inaction. He has no regard for our community members. We are the only ones who can look out for one another. Please help this family lay their loved one to rest with a donation in any amount.
Donate to Help the Ramey Family Lay Rico to Rest, organized by Melonie Perez
A couple of weeks ago, a community member, Rico Ramey, was found outside of The P… Melonie Perez needs your support for Help the Ramey Family Lay Rico to Rest
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February 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Governor McKee is killing people with his inaction. He has no regard for our community members. We are the only ones who can look out for one another. Please help this family lay their loved one to rest with a donation in any amount.
Well that’s one way to reframe it. 😐
I told my gf that I’m anxious about all the flying I have to do for my job and she reminded me that American infrastructure is crumbling so fast I’m probably just as unsafe on the ground
January 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Well that’s one way to reframe it. 😐
My clients are talking about going off their MOUD so they aren’t abruptly discontinued by this administration. In the middle of an ongoing drug poisoning epidemic. How tf are we supposed to go about daily life right now?
January 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My clients are talking about going off their MOUD so they aren’t abruptly discontinued by this administration. In the middle of an ongoing drug poisoning epidemic. How tf are we supposed to go about daily life right now?
Why is @whitehouse.senate.gov even entertaining a yes vote? Democrats just keep digging us deeper while pretending they are the ones protecting us.
Breaking - Caroline Kennedy speaks out on RFK jr. calls him a “predator”
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Please watch this powerful video and read this statement on RFKJr from my mother
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January 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Why is @whitehouse.senate.gov even entertaining a yes vote? Democrats just keep digging us deeper while pretending they are the ones protecting us.