AM Kieley
PhD student and PWUD working in my community to advocate for people who use drugs, forever promoting harm reduction. Community health, LTPA, and addiction researcher. Early-career qualitative researcher and all-season iced coffee drinker.
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- The push for involuntary treatment throughout Canada is terrifying. Not only is it a total violation of human rights, but it’s a colossal waste of money. People already struggle to access timely care when they want it. Let’s save our limited resources for people who are ready for treatment (1/2)
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- Here at day one of the 2025 Annual NL Centre on Substance Use conference. I hope some of my Canadian #drugsky peeps have had the opportunity to join us online or in-person! Hope to share some great KT stuff with you all <3
- Hey #drugsky do you get as frustrated as I do by this flavour of moralizing resilience: celebrating avoiding opioids during a medical event as the correct thing to do in recovery? I hate the idea that "toughing it out" is more respectable that taking pain meds after a painful procedure (1/2)
- A concise explanation of where we are with the continued escalation of the failed, endlessly harmful war on drugs #drugsky
- Tucking this in my back pocket for the next time someone pushes back when I say that TWOD is literally just a workaround to make people of certain ethnicities illegal. It’s not the drugs they were going for, it was the people. Pearl-clutching more-so than paternalism (although they do coexist here)
- Check out my recent contribution to the Impact Ethics blog (MUN Centre of Bioethics). Not my usual area, but a piece I wrote for a #healthmisinformation course. #healtheducation #healthethics #researchsky
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- While this was written in the context of the persecution of unhoused folks, we hear the same rhetoric applied to PUD. They'll say, "they don't go into the treatment programs we paid for, advocate for forced treatment (despite us knowing that doesn't work) and, when all else fails (1/2)
- I'm officially one month away from starting my PhD in Medicine (specifically Population Health and Applied Health Science) to finally dig deeper into substance use research. Any advice for a nervous doctoral student heading into a med school? #academicsky #drugsky #qualitativeresesrch
- Wednesday's stigma webinar was a success! Over 230 people attended throughout Newfoundland and Labrador and beyond! I saw more than a few Maritimers present. Anyone interested in some handouts or slides? I'll post the recording here as well once it becomes available. #drugsky #addictionresearch
