Four Years Later: Connor, Silence, and the Things Addiction Leaves Behind

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/02/21/12/47/41/analysis/jaimedavid327/9957/four-years-later-connor-silence-and-the-things-addiction-leaves-behind/

So, I just finished reading DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver. It was utterly unputdownable, I got mad at my family for speaking to me while I was reading it, and when I read the final sentence and closed the book all I could say was "DAMN."

Highly recommend, y'all. HIGHEST OF HIGHLY.

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‘Blood money’: Five years in, it’s unclear how Louisiana’s $100M in opioid funds are spent

https://thecurrentla.com/2025/blood-money-five-years-in-its-unclear-how-louisianas-100m-in-opioid-funds-are-spent/

A Fentanyl Vaccine Is About to Get Its First Major Test

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/a-fentanyl-vaccine-is-about-to-get-its-first-major-test/

‘The Next Wave in the Opioid Crisis’: A New Drug Stronger Than Fentanyl Is Taking Off

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/nitazene-opioid-fentanyl-crisis-1235465350/

Acadia Parish sheriff elected to chair statewide opioid task force

Acadia Parish Sheriff KP Gibson was elected to chair the Louisiana Opioid Abatement Task Force, adding to a significant presence of Acadiana representatives on the five-person task force responsible for overseeing and guiding the spending of opioid settlement funds across the state.

In addition to Gibson, Lafayette Mayor-President Monique Boulet was appointed to the task force in September and serves as its treasurer, and Crowley physician Peter Croughan serves as the Louisiana Department of Health appointee.

The task force was created as part of the memorandum of understanding that outlines how the funds from settlements with manufacturers and distributors of addictive opioid painkillers, the proliferation of which in the late 1990s and early aughts is considered the root of the deadly opioid epidemic still raging today, are to be spent.

In Louisiana, 20% of the funds allocated to each parish go to the offices of local sheriffs, who are not required to report how they spend those funds. The remaining 80% go directly to the parish government to be spent on treatment, prevention or “other strategies” to combat opioid use disorder.

Parishes are supposed to report their spending to the task force, although that reporting has lagged. In May, the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office issued a critical report, pointing out a lack of oversight of how the millions of dollars distributed to parishes every year are spent.

Gov. Greg Abbott signed a $50 million bill into law on Wednesday to help bring ibogaine through FDA-approved clinical trials. Advocates say it's the largest state-funded psychedelic research initiative in history.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2025/06/12/523803/abbott-signs-groundbreaking-psychedelic-research-bill-to-help-bring-ibogaine-through-clinical-trials/

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King 810 Shares the Title Track of Their New Album “Rustbelt Nu Metal”

https://www.metalsucks.net/2025/04/30/king-810-shares-title-track-of-new-album-rustbelt-nu-metal/

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