Kasia Malinowska

Immigrant 🇵🇱, mom of 2. Drug Policy at @OpenSociety, p-t faculty at @PennSP2

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

It is not rocket science -- following these 10 important steps will ensure opioid settlement funding supports communities most at risk for overdose. Read our piece in @Health_Affairs

[Health Affairs @Health_Affairs]

It’s worth taking the time to institute practices that ensure opioid settlement money is used in ways that honor the tens of thousands of lives lost and build community trust and cohesion in the process. | Forefront

Roxanne Saucier, et al. | @OpenSociety

https://t.co/JYOtPx4YfX

[Jill Poklemba @jillmarette99]

MUST READ by @OSFKasia @OpenSociety: "We Need to Double Down on #HarmReduction, Not Walk Away From It."

In @commondreams here⤵️
https://t.co/6eP0cGxARy

[Open Society Foundations @OpenSociety]

New momentum at the UN could shift international drug policy for the better: from a system that emphasizes control and punishment to a more humane one that is non-punitive and based on evidence, writes our @OSFKasia. https://t.co/p4JMHYe7Ka

[Sheila Vakharia PhD MSW @MyHarmReduction]

Our sign-on letter with 325 US-based faculty against federal funding cuts also got featured in the New York Times - https://t.co/WSjl1Rbwyy

[Scott Wilson @ScottADAC]

Judy Chang ⁦@INPUD⁩ ⁦@OSFKasia⁩ ⁦@harmreductionau⁩ ⁦@HRInews⁩ ⁦@HRV_Aust⁩ given Carol & Travis Jenkins Award #hri25 ⁦@UNAIDS⁩ ⁦@MelissaSweetDr⁩ ⁦@IDPCnet⁩ ⁦@nzdrug⁩ ⁦@globalcdp⁩ ⁦@DrugPolicyOrg⁩

[Scott Wilson @ScottADAC]

Diego Andres Lugo Vivas speaking on ecological Harm Reduction ⁦@HRInews⁩ #HR25 on gender inequalities, Indigenous dispossession & what does environment harm reduction mean ⁦@MelissaSweetDr⁩ ⁦@OSFKasia⁩ ⁦@IDPCnet⁩ ⁦@globalcdp⁩ ⁦@nzdrug⁩

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

Cuts to Medicaid would also be devastating. Medicaid is the single largest payer of substance use services in the US 4/5

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

We are in danger of losing these gains if Congress does not reverse cuts to vital programs to combat overdose. Trump’s proposed budget targets the very programs that get naloxone to people who save lives. They’re the programs that provide on-ramps to treatment. 3/5

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

This reduction is promising, but we shouldn’t lose focus. The US still saw more than 80,000 overdoses in 2024. We are starting to see efforts supported by last administration pay off, but the death toll is still exorbitant & overdose rates are increasing among minority groups 2/5

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

CDC just announced a 27% reduction in overdose deaths in 2024. This didn’t happen by accident; these declines are the result of investment in harm reduction and evidence-based treatment. 🧵 1/5 https://t.co/0e2l6lbrVo

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

OHCHR report on #drugpolicy had multiple fantastic recommendations. Here are side events at #CND68 lifting them up. Join in person, or on line

[Maggie Soladay @maggiesoladay]

Great piece from @OSFKasia against (dumb) healing farms treatment for drug use. https://t.co/cALEiGnZaw

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

Next week, we are heading back to Vienna for the #CND68. Please join the many excellent side events in person, or on line

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

Happy to join my fellow @Penn Social Work alumni for this conversation about philanthropy https://t.co/RtENhezjmb

[OnPoint NYC @_OnPointNYC]

Committed to #harmreduction & looking for a rewarding, fast-paced role? We’re hiring a Responsible Person in Charge to manage day-to-day operations in our Overdose Prevention Centers, ensuring smooth service & connecting participants to programs. https://t.co/7yrLA4T2xQ

[Colombia at the United Nations in New York @ColombiaONU]

🇨🇴🇧🇴🇺🇳| If you missed our UN briefing with Colombian, Bolivian, and @WHO experts on the coca leaf review process, you can watch it here!📺👇https://t.co/ydCo5CpOc6

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

Become a Harm Reduction fellow at @montclairstateu.
$8,000 scholarships are now available for the Harm Reduction Approaches to Substance Use certificate at Montclair State University. Fellows will also participate in targeted networking and professional development opportunities.

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

Today at 3 pm CET, @globalcdp is launching its excellent report on moving the national responses to drugs away from criminal punishments to human rights & health. Register here: https://t.co/CBww8DWZ9C

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

80% of women in jails are mothers, and most of them are primary caretakers of their children.

Mass incarceration has a ripple effect, causing trauma that can last generations within a single family.

[Kasia Malinowska @OSFKasia]

10 excellent recommendations on how to spend opioid settlements so they have the greatest public health impact: https://t.co/uGAGivMTk8 @RemedyAlliance