William Leonard Pickard

former researcher, Harvard Medical School (Neurobiology), Harvard Kennedy School (Drug Policy) FOIA activist, author of The Rose of Paracelsus- Amazon, 656 pgs

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Watch Leonard's first personal interview, with Anya of the London Psychedelic Society @PsychedelicsUK, at:

https://t.co/1frfKVI0yE

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Happy Bicycle Day!

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Leonard was released on July 27, 2020, after 20 years of two life sentences in a maximum security American prison. Listen to his live presentation:

https://t.co/7rsD8BCcFe, November 17-20, 2020.
#PPLIVE

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We are privileged to share this reading by the well-loved Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, reading Chapter 2 of The Rose

https://t.co/0hfJtilIT9

#theroseofparacelsus
#pickard

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"You ask what is our aim?
I can answer that in one word: it is victory.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of the terror,
victory, however long and hard the road may be,
for without victory, there is no survival."

- Churchill, 1940

[William Leonard Pickard @fentanyl_crisis]

New! Chapter One of The Rose, first full reading

https://t.co/KkUc4Y54Hs

(Kat & Alexa Lakey, Nese Devenot, Ralf Jeutter, Julian Vayne, Nikki Wyrd)

#theroseofparacelsus
#freepickard
#pickard

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With gratitude,

- L

[William Leonard Pickard @fentanyl_crisis]

New podcast!
Full Chapter One of The Rose, with Kat & Alexa Lakey,
bioethicist Nese Devenot, Homeric scholar Ralf Jeutter,
Julian Vayne & Nikki Wyrd.

https://t.co/6YKCtLRjgb

RT please, & enjoy

[William Leonard Pickard @fentanyl_crisis]

RAND's "The Future of Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids" is now free as e-book and PDF at: https://t.co/EahXJil5Xi

Leonard Pickard's policy proposals cited at pp. xxix, 45, 51, 52, 54, 56-57, 58, 64, 67, 220.
#freepickard, #pickard

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Dear Friends,

Please share (23 mins):
https://t.co/0bVlM061ZN

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RAND just corroborated Leonard's 1996 evidence-based prediction of the fentanyl epidemic, and his recommendations for prevention.

https://t.co/EahXJil5Xi

#pickard
#freepickard
#theroseofparacelsus

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[William Leonard Pickard @fentanyl_crisis]

We lost Mark Kleiman on Sunday, July 21st. Mark's kindness, encouragement, deep humanity and outright brilliance always guided his many students and colleagues. For 27 years, he could not have been a better friend. Hale and farewell, dear Mark.

@MarkARKleiman

[William Leonard Pickard @fentanyl_crisis]

While licit pharmaceuticals
drove the opioid crisis in part,
and corporations suffer legal
consequences, thus modifying policies
to reduce overprescribing,
there are few restraints on proliferation
of point sources of fentanyls, now
mimics of licit opioids.

#fentanyl

[William Leonard Pickard @fentanyl_crisis]

Sasha Shulgin's concern about fentanyl in a 1976 lecture
was predated by inventor Janssen of Belgium,
and DEA personnel. Only in 1996 in Cambridge did evidence-based research
predict an epidemic, recommending precursor control
& widespread use of naloxone.
#fentanyl
#opioidcrisis

[William Leonard Pickard @fentanyl_crisis]

In 1996, William Leonard Pickard
was the first researcher to provide
evidence-based predictions of
1. a forthcoming fentanyl epidemic,
2. naloxone as a widely-distributable remedy for
overdoses, and
3. precursor controls to prevent an epidemic.

#fentanyl
#opiodcrisis