Brandon Park
@bparketal.bsky.social
(he/him)
Clinical Psychology PhD student at the University of Missouri-St. Louis -- views are mine and not necessarily representative of my affiliated institutions
Clinical Psychology PhD student at the University of Missouri-St. Louis -- views are mine and not necessarily representative of my affiliated institutions
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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COVID vaccines are now available to anyone—no prescription needed! Swipe for resources on where to find one near you.
October 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
COVID vaccines are now available to anyone—no prescription needed! Swipe for resources on where to find one near you.
The "nice and pretty" published version of our Perspective discussing the ACTUAL evidence of naloxone's "enabling" consequences (which there is very little) and the research examining the PERCEPTION that naloxone is "enabling" is out now, if you haven't read it yet!
doi.org/10.15288/jsa...
doi.org/10.15288/jsa...
September 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
The "nice and pretty" published version of our Perspective discussing the ACTUAL evidence of naloxone's "enabling" consequences (which there is very little) and the research examining the PERCEPTION that naloxone is "enabling" is out now, if you haven't read it yet!
doi.org/10.15288/jsa...
doi.org/10.15288/jsa...
Just 7 days until the panel discussing lived perspectives on the opioid vaccine! 💉 Hope to see you there in-person or on Zoom!
Have you heard about the novel opioid vaccine / fentanyl vaccine?
If not (or even if you have!), our next SURG Brunch 'n Learn meeting will feature our first-ever Translational Panel - composed of four people with lived experience in drug use - discussing the novel opioid vaccine in development.
If not (or even if you have!), our next SURG Brunch 'n Learn meeting will feature our first-ever Translational Panel - composed of four people with lived experience in drug use - discussing the novel opioid vaccine in development.
August 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Just 7 days until the panel discussing lived perspectives on the opioid vaccine! 💉 Hope to see you there in-person or on Zoom!
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The Drug war was built for control, not care. Now history is repeating itself. 🧵
August 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Drug war was built for control, not care. Now history is repeating itself. 🧵
What do naloxone, PrEP, helmets & seatbelts share? They’re tools that reduce harm, as a safety net that only “activates” when risk is present. Yet naloxone gets uniquely branded as “enabling.” WHY? And why does it MATTER?
August 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
What do naloxone, PrEP, helmets & seatbelts share? They’re tools that reduce harm, as a safety net that only “activates” when risk is present. Yet naloxone gets uniquely branded as “enabling.” WHY? And why does it MATTER?
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What an insult to our harm reduction movement and elders who fought so hard for naloxone and fentanyl test strip access.
Check out the atrocious language in the latest letter from SAMHSA claiming these tools are "not harm reduction."
www.samhsa.gov/sites/defaul...
Check out the atrocious language in the latest letter from SAMHSA claiming these tools are "not harm reduction."
www.samhsa.gov/sites/defaul...
July 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
What an insult to our harm reduction movement and elders who fought so hard for naloxone and fentanyl test strip access.
Check out the atrocious language in the latest letter from SAMHSA claiming these tools are "not harm reduction."
www.samhsa.gov/sites/defaul...
Check out the atrocious language in the latest letter from SAMHSA claiming these tools are "not harm reduction."
www.samhsa.gov/sites/defaul...
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IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE
Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit
Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit
a cartoon of a man and a dog with the words now 's the time for action written on the bottom
ALT: a cartoon of a man and a dog with the words now 's the time for action written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE
Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit
Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit
Have you heard about the novel opioid vaccine / fentanyl vaccine?
If not (or even if you have!), our next SURG Brunch 'n Learn meeting will feature our first-ever Translational Panel - composed of four people with lived experience in drug use - discussing the novel opioid vaccine in development.
If not (or even if you have!), our next SURG Brunch 'n Learn meeting will feature our first-ever Translational Panel - composed of four people with lived experience in drug use - discussing the novel opioid vaccine in development.
July 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Have you heard about the novel opioid vaccine / fentanyl vaccine?
If not (or even if you have!), our next SURG Brunch 'n Learn meeting will feature our first-ever Translational Panel - composed of four people with lived experience in drug use - discussing the novel opioid vaccine in development.
If not (or even if you have!), our next SURG Brunch 'n Learn meeting will feature our first-ever Translational Panel - composed of four people with lived experience in drug use - discussing the novel opioid vaccine in development.
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If I hear one more reporter say these attacks on universities and science are about "antisemitism," I am going to lose it. This is about destroying higher education full stop and it doesn't help to parrot the White House's talking points. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
www.science.org
July 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If I hear one more reporter say these attacks on universities and science are about "antisemitism," I am going to lose it. This is about destroying higher education full stop and it doesn't help to parrot the White House's talking points. www.science.org/content/arti...
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The truth? Medicaid (largest payer of addiction treatment) faces $800B in cuts. SAMSHA's been cut by $1B and lost 1/3 of its staff. This all threatens access to treatment, fentanyl withdrawal meds & naloxone. In NC, Project Lazarus lost DOJ grants for jail-to-treatment diversion.
VEASEY: You've credited the 12 steps in your recovery. What's step 4?
RFK JR: Making a fearless inventory
VEASEY: Of ourselves. Do you remember step 12?
RFK JR: We try to help other addicts
VEASEY: Does cutting off treatment from people still suffering align with step 4 or step 12?
RFK JR: Making a fearless inventory
VEASEY: Of ourselves. Do you remember step 12?
RFK JR: We try to help other addicts
VEASEY: Does cutting off treatment from people still suffering align with step 4 or step 12?
June 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The truth? Medicaid (largest payer of addiction treatment) faces $800B in cuts. SAMSHA's been cut by $1B and lost 1/3 of its staff. This all threatens access to treatment, fentanyl withdrawal meds & naloxone. In NC, Project Lazarus lost DOJ grants for jail-to-treatment diversion.
I'm still in awe after attending and presenting at #CPDD2025, which marks a big personal and professional milestone to see all my mentors and senior scholars in action! Alongside them, I'm proud to have garnered plenty foot traffic at my poster on MOUD stigma among residents in recovery housing!
June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I'm still in awe after attending and presenting at #CPDD2025, which marks a big personal and professional milestone to see all my mentors and senior scholars in action! Alongside them, I'm proud to have garnered plenty foot traffic at my poster on MOUD stigma among residents in recovery housing!
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While the Trump administration was having a birthday party, we were marching across the nation for our rights.
And we’re not slowing down.
And we’re not slowing down.
June 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
While the Trump administration was having a birthday party, we were marching across the nation for our rights.
And we’re not slowing down.
And we’re not slowing down.
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Science is under unprecedented threat in the US, and we need to speak out to save it.
If you are an early-career researcher, please consider signing our open letter calling to preserve the future of American science: tinyurl.com/mcclintockle....
Our futures, and our country's future, depend on it.
If you are an early-career researcher, please consider signing our open letter calling to preserve the future of American science: tinyurl.com/mcclintockle....
Our futures, and our country's future, depend on it.
Open Letter: A Call to Preserve the Future of American Science
The Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP) invites early-career scientists (e.g., student, post-bacc, PhD candidate, post-doctoral researcher, early-career faculty) in the United States to join...
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June 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Science is under unprecedented threat in the US, and we need to speak out to save it.
If you are an early-career researcher, please consider signing our open letter calling to preserve the future of American science: tinyurl.com/mcclintockle....
Our futures, and our country's future, depend on it.
If you are an early-career researcher, please consider signing our open letter calling to preserve the future of American science: tinyurl.com/mcclintockle....
Our futures, and our country's future, depend on it.
Applying the Dualistic Model of Passion to opioid use with a treatment-seeking clinical sample? Interestingly, observed higher 'obsessive passion' mean than 'harmonious passion' mean, which contrasts past DMP + substance use studies but aligns with one DMP + gambling study!
doi.org/10.1080/1606...
doi.org/10.1080/1606...
June 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Applying the Dualistic Model of Passion to opioid use with a treatment-seeking clinical sample? Interestingly, observed higher 'obsessive passion' mean than 'harmonious passion' mean, which contrasts past DMP + substance use studies but aligns with one DMP + gambling study!
doi.org/10.1080/1606...
doi.org/10.1080/1606...
Please excuse my bedhead 😴 - feeling proud to have presented at my first #CPA2025, examining differential stigma toward MOUD among recovery housing residents based on their own lived experience with these meds! Thank you to mentors, co-authors, and friends for their support with this project!
April 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Please excuse my bedhead 😴 - feeling proud to have presented at my first #CPA2025, examining differential stigma toward MOUD among recovery housing residents based on their own lived experience with these meds! Thank you to mentors, co-authors, and friends for their support with this project!
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Come check me out Saturday morning at 8:30 am #62!!! I’ll be discussing Missouri’s first federally funded CM program for stimulant use disorder #CPA2025
April 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Come check me out Saturday morning at 8:30 am #62!!! I’ll be discussing Missouri’s first federally funded CM program for stimulant use disorder #CPA2025
What a great presentation, and a bonus to see a familiar face, @juststrickland.bsky.social !!
April 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
What a great presentation, and a bonus to see a familiar face, @juststrickland.bsky.social !!
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NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.
storage.courtlistener.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.
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Colleagues, please see the Op-Ed below. Both #depression and #OUD had medical breakthroughs in 1965, so why do we now have >90 options for antidepressants & only 4 for #opioid use disorder? Let's use the depression field as an actionable road map for solving #addiction!
Six decades ago, hope surged for depression & opioid addiction treatments. Today, depression management has advanced significantly, but progress in #OUD has been more gradual.
@drkellydunn.bsky.social explores this in a @medpagetoday.bsky.social #opinion piece: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco....
@drkellydunn.bsky.social explores this in a @medpagetoday.bsky.social #opinion piece: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco....
March 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Colleagues, please see the Op-Ed below. Both #depression and #OUD had medical breakthroughs in 1965, so why do we now have >90 options for antidepressants & only 4 for #opioid use disorder? Let's use the depression field as an actionable road map for solving #addiction!
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The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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🚨 CALLING ALL UNDERGRADUATE, POST-BACC, AND GRADUATE STUDENTS!
The ABCT Student SIG is excited to announce that we are now ACCEPTING PROPOSALS for our third annual Student Research Symposium!
Check out the thread below for more info on this FREE & VIRTUAL event! #ABCTStudentSymposium2025
The ABCT Student SIG is excited to announce that we are now ACCEPTING PROPOSALS for our third annual Student Research Symposium!
Check out the thread below for more info on this FREE & VIRTUAL event! #ABCTStudentSymposium2025
January 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🚨 CALLING ALL UNDERGRADUATE, POST-BACC, AND GRADUATE STUDENTS!
The ABCT Student SIG is excited to announce that we are now ACCEPTING PROPOSALS for our third annual Student Research Symposium!
Check out the thread below for more info on this FREE & VIRTUAL event! #ABCTStudentSymposium2025
The ABCT Student SIG is excited to announce that we are now ACCEPTING PROPOSALS for our third annual Student Research Symposium!
Check out the thread below for more info on this FREE & VIRTUAL event! #ABCTStudentSymposium2025
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Today @cpddorg.bsky.social members met with congressional representatives to advocate for NIH funding, maintaining our negotiated indirect rates, and streamlining our science. You can advocate too- call your congresspeople and advocate for science! -> www.congress.gov/members/find...
February 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Today @cpddorg.bsky.social members met with congressional representatives to advocate for NIH funding, maintaining our negotiated indirect rates, and streamlining our science. You can advocate too- call your congresspeople and advocate for science! -> www.congress.gov/members/find...