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tracey helton mitchell MPA 🏹
@traceyh415
opinions are my own. Naloxone! author-The Big Fix. Featured in The NYT & NPRs Fresh Air, anti racist, MH issues, repped by @lynnjohnstonlit
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    @traceyh415
    Mar 7, 2021
    Real cancel culture is getting locked up for a petty drug case, being too poor to get lawyer, having your public defender convince you to agree to a felony. Then society tell you where you can live, whether or not you can vote & what jobs you can hold for the rest of your life.
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    Nov 20, 2022
    My friend gave birth in prison while shackled to the gurney. They let her hold the baby for 45 mins then took her newborn away. She was in there for a non violent offense and never got to see her child again. Her child was adopted out as infants are in high demand.
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    Nov 20, 2022
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    I know rules vary from prison to prison. I just wonder if that chid even knows that her mother didn’t want to give her up. The window for reunification was up when she got out and the guilt ate her up to where she returned to drugs.
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    @traceyh415
    Oct 2, 2022
    Ppl who have not been homeless cannot understand what it’s like to have your belongings, including ID, thrown out. You can’t stay in a hotel or many shelters w out one. It makes you literally stuck outside. And you can’t get the birth certificate to get a new one w out an address
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    Nov 25, 2022
    You can do nice things for unhoused folks and folks with addiction issues without ever taking a picture.
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    Oct 10, 2020
    Replying to @rcosterr
    A lot of ppl on here worried about a used vibrator but don’t think enough about where the dick has been
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    @traceyh415
    Jul 2, 2024
    I can tell you from being alive and having friends die in the AIDS crisis and the overdose crisis that the government will not save us. They will actually watch ppl die and sit on their hands
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    Jun 25, 2021
    My friend's roommate died this week from fent in his cocaine. The person was an occasional user of drugs so his circle of friends are blindsided. This seems to be common now in the Bay Area. While there are narcan and test strips, either way you have to go slow.
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    Aug 8, 2020
    Replying to @karlimarulli
    The guy that greets you when you move into sober living
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    tracey helton mitchell MPA 🏹
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    Apr 16, 2024
    When anyone asks me to do anything outside my job description #ShogunFX
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    Sep 13, 2024
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    May 21, 2021
    If you’re ready for a good cry #harmreduction works
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    @traceyh415
    Feb 6, 2021
    If I decided to relapse, it would take me 15 minutes to get 5 different types of drugs. If I needed to get help for said relapse, it would take me days to get any kind of service. But everyone blames the person. They “just aren’t trying”.
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    Oct 6, 2019
    Just so we are clear, I shot heroin, cocaine, and other drugs daily for 8 years while homeless. I now run six million dollars worth of public health programs for the county. The person you are treating like shit in a clinic can one day become your boss. That’s actual happened.