Always good to spend time with @lisahalverstadt.bsky.social — one of the best journalists working on homelessness. #Politifest2025

Veteran homelessness has ⬇️by > 1/2, because of Housing First and FUNDING. In @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social @hannahdeckermd.bsky.social study, Vets who gained housing were >2 as likely to catch up on colon and breast ca screening. Housing = Health
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@annfammed.bsky.social

📖Book Recommendation!
There Is No Place for Us (out 3/25) by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social follows 5 (working) families in Atlanta, making clear how the lack of affordable housing, low wage work, exploitive extended stay hotels & dysfunctional systems trap families in homelessness
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Great turnout at #StandUpForScience2025
#Berkeley

Join @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social for a discussion about behavioral health and homelessness--a solutions based conversation.
Thursday, March 20, 2025 11:30AM - 1:00PM PDT
On zoom--sign up below!
Register at: homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/web...

Kicking off the HOME: Health Opportunity Mobility & Equity in Housing meeting in Minneapolis Andrew Fenelon shows the median home values in these leading cities…

At a packed Mrs Dalloway’s bookstore to hear @kevinfagan.bsky.social discussing his new book “The Lost and the Found”

5) Most people who use opioids also use meth---
6) Almost 20% survived an OD---10% in current episode of homelessness
7) 1/4 currently carry naloxone

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3) Few people were getting treated for substance use---& those that were, were receiving lower quality treatment (<5% who had regular opioid use in their life were receiving MOUD!) BUT
4) Many wanted and weren't getting it!
21% of those with regular drug use wanted tx, but were unable to get it
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📣New paper alert 🧵Our paper on substance use in homeless populations @jama.com :
🗝️points:
1) >1/3 ppl use drugs regularly--meth is most common
2) ~1/4 of all ppl experiencing homeless (PEH) started using regularly AFTER becoming homeless (42% before)

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NIH Office of Research On Women's Health. At top: Putting science to work for the health of women. Just below that: Page not found. The link: dead. I guess....improving the health of women is...no longer a priority. Or, even allowed?

Health Disparities are real & lethal. Research on ⬇️ health disparities & improving health among impacted pops is critical. The NIMHD (NIH Institute that focuses on ⬇️ disparities) website remains. But if you search NIH Health Disparities, the page is gone. Chilling.

NIH Diversity Supplements provide (d) small $ for additions to projects for scientists who faced barriers (from rural areas, grew up in poverty, have disabilities, & from ethnic/racial groups historically excluded) to gain exp and prelim data. Now gone. (Screenshot new exp date. Other pages gone)

NIH study sections & council meetings cancelled. NIH employees told to not purchase supplies. Does the public understand what the NIH does or what this means?This article ⬇️ points out but doesn’t name some of the wonders of science & quiet heroism of scientists whose work leads to these “miracles”

The violence against ppl who are homeless is constant and terrifying. 36% of adults who were homeless in CA reported exp physical assault during this episode, 9.8% exp sexual assault. Our paper in JAMA IM
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The role of public health agencies in resolving homeless encampments--Addressing homelessness will require a multisector approach, including govt, nonprofit, and private sector partners working in health, housing, human services, and justice. Meehan et al @jama.com
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Among adults experiencing homelessness in CA, 37.9% had experienced physical (36.1%) or sexual (9.8%) violence during their homelessness episode. 1/2 perpetrated by a stranger.

#CAHomelessnessStudy
#JAMA Internal Medicine
Anita Hargrave
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social

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