Caitlin Molina
@caitlinmolina.medsky.social
Harm Reduction. Street Medicine. Future physician
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Still a few hours left in Giving Tuesday 😏
Harm reductionists fill in the gaps- we saw it with our local community response to the fires in LA, amidst raids, and the every day acts that keep people on their feet (food, water, clothes, blankets, tarps, tents, pet supplies, etc.)
Harm reductionists fill in the gaps- we saw it with our local community response to the fires in LA, amidst raids, and the every day acts that keep people on their feet (food, water, clothes, blankets, tarps, tents, pet supplies, etc.)
Giving Tuesday! 💞
Find your local harm reduction or syringe services program-these mostly run on a shoestring budget & every dollar goes to people who desperately need care in all its forms. We use donations to buy outreach supplies for all our sites to supplement basic harm reduction materials.
Find your local harm reduction or syringe services program-these mostly run on a shoestring budget & every dollar goes to people who desperately need care in all its forms. We use donations to buy outreach supplies for all our sites to supplement basic harm reduction materials.
December 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Still a few hours left in Giving Tuesday 😏
Harm reductionists fill in the gaps- we saw it with our local community response to the fires in LA, amidst raids, and the every day acts that keep people on their feet (food, water, clothes, blankets, tarps, tents, pet supplies, etc.)
Harm reductionists fill in the gaps- we saw it with our local community response to the fires in LA, amidst raids, and the every day acts that keep people on their feet (food, water, clothes, blankets, tarps, tents, pet supplies, etc.)
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The UCFA/UCLAFA/AAUP victory is on the front page of today’s LA Times.
(No leadership or administrators were harmed in actually standing up to the Feds. because they didn’t.)
(No leadership or administrators were harmed in actually standing up to the Feds. because they didn’t.)
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The UCFA/UCLAFA/AAUP victory is on the front page of today’s LA Times.
(No leadership or administrators were harmed in actually standing up to the Feds. because they didn’t.)
(No leadership or administrators were harmed in actually standing up to the Feds. because they didn’t.)
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Proud of Brooke & our small but mighty team of drug checkers at SLO Bangers, presenting @amersa.org
So great to hang w my social science collab “phone an anthropologist“ BFF sister @drteresa-winst.bsky.social (presented w her student on polydrug use) & w our LA DC fam @caitlinmolina.medsky.social
So great to hang w my social science collab “phone an anthropologist“ BFF sister @drteresa-winst.bsky.social (presented w her student on polydrug use) & w our LA DC fam @caitlinmolina.medsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Proud of Brooke & our small but mighty team of drug checkers at SLO Bangers, presenting @amersa.org
So great to hang w my social science collab “phone an anthropologist“ BFF sister @drteresa-winst.bsky.social (presented w her student on polydrug use) & w our LA DC fam @caitlinmolina.medsky.social
So great to hang w my social science collab “phone an anthropologist“ BFF sister @drteresa-winst.bsky.social (presented w her student on polydrug use) & w our LA DC fam @caitlinmolina.medsky.social
Day 1 of @amersa.org in the books.
Looking forward to Day 2!
The Drug Checking LA team has a special guest at our workshop tomorrow (Rabiosa the FTIR).
Looking forward to Day 2!
The Drug Checking LA team has a special guest at our workshop tomorrow (Rabiosa the FTIR).
Hey look it’s @caitlinmolina.medsky.social Talking about drug checking! Such cool and important work!
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Day 1 of @amersa.org in the books.
Looking forward to Day 2!
The Drug Checking LA team has a special guest at our workshop tomorrow (Rabiosa the FTIR).
Looking forward to Day 2!
The Drug Checking LA team has a special guest at our workshop tomorrow (Rabiosa the FTIR).
Happy NFL Sunday to all who watch
The Aaron Rodgers sack count is at 2 so far.
Skol.
The Aaron Rodgers sack count is at 2 so far.
Skol.
September 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Happy NFL Sunday to all who watch
The Aaron Rodgers sack count is at 2 so far.
Skol.
The Aaron Rodgers sack count is at 2 so far.
Skol.
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Latinsky is 150 people away from having 1k on the feed!
Help #BuildTheBarrio and share this post so the Latine community on Bluesky knows that there’s a place for us here!
If you’re Latine, reach out to be included in the feed! If you’re an ally, share the post so your Latine friends see it too!
Help #BuildTheBarrio and share this post so the Latine community on Bluesky knows that there’s a place for us here!
If you’re Latine, reach out to be included in the feed! If you’re an ally, share the post so your Latine friends see it too!
August 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Latinsky is 150 people away from having 1k on the feed!
Help #BuildTheBarrio and share this post so the Latine community on Bluesky knows that there’s a place for us here!
If you’re Latine, reach out to be included in the feed! If you’re an ally, share the post so your Latine friends see it too!
Help #BuildTheBarrio and share this post so the Latine community on Bluesky knows that there’s a place for us here!
If you’re Latine, reach out to be included in the feed! If you’re an ally, share the post so your Latine friends see it too!
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This point isnt being made enough. Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
www.statnews.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This point isnt being made enough. Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
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Experts often talk as if there are distinct "types" of homelessness—chronic vs episodic, hidden vs visible—but they miss something crucial.
Homelessness is a *spectrum of insecurity*: in a squalid motel today, on someone's couch tomorrow, in a tent next year.
Sweeps do NOTHING to stop this cycle.
Homelessness is a *spectrum of insecurity*: in a squalid motel today, on someone's couch tomorrow, in a tent next year.
Sweeps do NOTHING to stop this cycle.
August 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Experts often talk as if there are distinct "types" of homelessness—chronic vs episodic, hidden vs visible—but they miss something crucial.
Homelessness is a *spectrum of insecurity*: in a squalid motel today, on someone's couch tomorrow, in a tent next year.
Sweeps do NOTHING to stop this cycle.
Homelessness is a *spectrum of insecurity*: in a squalid motel today, on someone's couch tomorrow, in a tent next year.
Sweeps do NOTHING to stop this cycle.
Spent a lot of time with my cousin's kid this past week.
What a reminder at how open-minded and loving kids can be!
We talked harm reduction, service dogs (why Huxley couldn't be at places where other dogs were), how to express feelings...and he understood everything.
The kids are alright.
What a reminder at how open-minded and loving kids can be!
We talked harm reduction, service dogs (why Huxley couldn't be at places where other dogs were), how to express feelings...and he understood everything.
The kids are alright.
August 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Spent a lot of time with my cousin's kid this past week.
What a reminder at how open-minded and loving kids can be!
We talked harm reduction, service dogs (why Huxley couldn't be at places where other dogs were), how to express feelings...and he understood everything.
The kids are alright.
What a reminder at how open-minded and loving kids can be!
We talked harm reduction, service dogs (why Huxley couldn't be at places where other dogs were), how to express feelings...and he understood everything.
The kids are alright.
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lolll this quote is a banger: “The best approach is putting drug dogs in the officer’s locker rooms, because that’s where it’s coming in.”
August 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
lolll this quote is a banger: “The best approach is putting drug dogs in the officer’s locker rooms, because that’s where it’s coming in.”
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My latest, with @kellydoran.bsky.social: In 2 major USMLE Step 1 & 2 Qbanks, vignettes with patients experiencing homelessness overrepresented HIV, TB, & substance use, underrepresented top causes of death like CV disease & cancer, & often used stigmatizing language link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
My latest, with @kellydoran.bsky.social: In 2 major USMLE Step 1 & 2 Qbanks, vignettes with patients experiencing homelessness overrepresented HIV, TB, & substance use, underrepresented top causes of death like CV disease & cancer, & often used stigmatizing language link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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And then Drug Checking Los Angeles today: awesome project director @caitlinmolina.medsky.social and superstar collaborator @josephrfriedman.bsky.social had posters on the odd things we've been seeing in illicit drugs. Quetiapine (Seroquel) in heroin...Local anesthetics ('caines) in the fentanyl.
April 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
And then Drug Checking Los Angeles today: awesome project director @caitlinmolina.medsky.social and superstar collaborator @josephrfriedman.bsky.social had posters on the odd things we've been seeing in illicit drugs. Quetiapine (Seroquel) in heroin...Local anesthetics ('caines) in the fentanyl.
Who else is excited for ASAM??
I'm getting there early and will be on the hunt for the best coffee. Denver friends, drop your fave recs
I'm getting there early and will be on the hunt for the best coffee. Denver friends, drop your fave recs
April 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Who else is excited for ASAM??
I'm getting there early and will be on the hunt for the best coffee. Denver friends, drop your fave recs
I'm getting there early and will be on the hunt for the best coffee. Denver friends, drop your fave recs
Good morning runners, walkers, cyclists, and anyone else who likes to spend time outdoors.
Don't forget to carry naloxone. You never know when you need it.
I like to keep the injectable kind in my smaller bags.
Don't forget to carry naloxone. You never know when you need it.
I like to keep the injectable kind in my smaller bags.
April 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Good morning runners, walkers, cyclists, and anyone else who likes to spend time outdoors.
Don't forget to carry naloxone. You never know when you need it.
I like to keep the injectable kind in my smaller bags.
Don't forget to carry naloxone. You never know when you need it.
I like to keep the injectable kind in my smaller bags.
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Reason #2. "Of the 100 brand-name drugs, 32 were finished in the US, while 67 were finished in countries in the European Union, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, & the UK." #Tariffs will increase the cost of your medications.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/report-detai...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/report-detai...
April 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reason #2. "Of the 100 brand-name drugs, 32 were finished in the US, while 67 were finished in countries in the European Union, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, & the UK." #Tariffs will increase the cost of your medications.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/report-detai...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/report-detai...
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Crushing people doesn't make people safe & that just one way that "clearing" homelessness encampments harms health. No one wants there to be homeless encampments. But treating human beings as if they were garbage to be disposed of isn't a solution. @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
In Cities’ Rush to Clear Homeless Camps, People Have Been Crushed to Death
Atlanta’s mayor began a drive to clear homeless encampments. But when heavy equipment came to raze one, nobody noticed that Cornelius Taylor was still inside his tent.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Crushing people doesn't make people safe & that just one way that "clearing" homelessness encampments harms health. No one wants there to be homeless encampments. But treating human beings as if they were garbage to be disposed of isn't a solution. @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
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This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993.
March 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993.
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Children’s Hospital LA is lifting its recent restrictions on hormonal treatment for transgender youth www.latimes.com/california/s...
Children's Hospital L.A. lifts recent limits on hormonal therapy for transgender youth
Children's Hospital L.A. is easing recent restrictions on hormonal treatment for transgender youth, reversing a move that set off protests outside the hospital.
www.latimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Children’s Hospital LA is lifting its recent restrictions on hormonal treatment for transgender youth www.latimes.com/california/s...
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has a new online misinformation hub with lots of really good resources addressing health topics frequently targeted by misinformation such as abortion, contraception, vaccines, and menopause. Here’s the link!
Combating Misinformation
Curated by ACOG, this collection of resources is designed to combat the growing threat of health care misinformation.
www.acog.org
February 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has a new online misinformation hub with lots of really good resources addressing health topics frequently targeted by misinformation such as abortion, contraception, vaccines, and menopause. Here’s the link!
More coverage this AM on the puzzling arrival of industrial chemical BTMPS in the illicit fentanyl supply
And a timely reminder of the value of public health research
With quotes from @chelsealshover.bsky.social @morgangodvin.bsky.social @nabarund.bsky.social
1/2
www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/h...
And a timely reminder of the value of public health research
With quotes from @chelsealshover.bsky.social @morgangodvin.bsky.social @nabarund.bsky.social
1/2
www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/h...
‘One of the larger mysteries I’ve ever seen’: Industrial chemical found in illicit fentanyl | CNN
The drug supply is constantly evolving, and some experts suggest that a “fourth wave” of the opioid epidemic is underway, in which illicit fentanyl is more frequently mixed with other drugs.
www.cnn.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
More coverage this AM on the puzzling arrival of industrial chemical BTMPS in the illicit fentanyl supply
And a timely reminder of the value of public health research
With quotes from @chelsealshover.bsky.social @morgangodvin.bsky.social @nabarund.bsky.social
1/2
www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/h...
And a timely reminder of the value of public health research
With quotes from @chelsealshover.bsky.social @morgangodvin.bsky.social @nabarund.bsky.social
1/2
www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/h...
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Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
February 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
LA friends, there's a new Pasadena Community Fridge inside Neighbors & Friends Café. Open 9 AM- 3 PM.
Make sure your loved ones affected by the Eaton fire know
Make sure your loved ones affected by the Eaton fire know
February 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
LA friends, there's a new Pasadena Community Fridge inside Neighbors & Friends Café. Open 9 AM- 3 PM.
Make sure your loved ones affected by the Eaton fire know
Make sure your loved ones affected by the Eaton fire know
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We don’t expect you to read our 66-page report, so here’s a op-ed in @westword.com
www.westword.com/news/colorad...
www.westword.com/news/colorad...
Increasing Criminal Penalties for Drug Possession Doesn’t Work: We Did the Study for Colorado
The report on results of the Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention Act was designed to inform future decision-making...and "that future is now."
www.westword.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We don’t expect you to read our 66-page report, so here’s a op-ed in @westword.com
www.westword.com/news/colorad...
www.westword.com/news/colorad...
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Over just a few months, a puzzling new adulterant popped up in the fentanyl supply.
Today in @jama.com, our drug checking results show the sudden (and much-despised) appearance of BTMPS.
Not a spoiler: It’s a great mystery of my career! ja.ma/4hsgRqW
Today in @jama.com, our drug checking results show the sudden (and much-despised) appearance of BTMPS.
Not a spoiler: It’s a great mystery of my career! ja.ma/4hsgRqW
UV Stabilizer BTMPS in the Illicit Fentanyl Supply in 9 US Locations
This study characterizes the presence of bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate (BTMPS) in the illicit fentanyl supply in 9 US locations.
ja.ma
February 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Over just a few months, a puzzling new adulterant popped up in the fentanyl supply.
Today in @jama.com, our drug checking results show the sudden (and much-despised) appearance of BTMPS.
Not a spoiler: It’s a great mystery of my career! ja.ma/4hsgRqW
Today in @jama.com, our drug checking results show the sudden (and much-despised) appearance of BTMPS.
Not a spoiler: It’s a great mystery of my career! ja.ma/4hsgRqW
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