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Road safety boss urges consideration of e-scooter standards, not bans, after fatality
By Keane Bourke

Commissioner Adrian Warner says technology that makes e-scooters safer could be rolled out, along with a new regulated category for more powerful devices.

abc.net.au/news/2025-06-07/wa-

ABC News · Minimum standards for hireable e-scooters should be considered: Road safety commissionerBy Keane Bourke
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The National Survey on #DrugUse & #Health is an annual survey of households conducted by the #SubstanceAbuse & #MentalHealth Administration, which is being dissolved in *#Health* Secy #RFKJr's overhaul of the nation's health agencies.

"We survey about 70k people, 12 & older each year," says Jennifer Hoenig, who used to lead the team of scientists in charge of the survey, which is the largest in the country.

So much for giving a shit about #overdose #deaths

They've tracked Americans' #DrugUse for decades. #Trump & #RFKJr fired them

A federal #study on #MentalHealth problems & #SubstanceAbuse across the country that has been running for decades & is used by a wide range of researchers faces an uncertain future after Trump cuts.

#AddictionIsADisease #PublicHealth #SelfMedicating #eugenics #FDT
npr.org/sections/shots-health-

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In cutting $1.065B from the #SubstanceAbuse & #MentalHealth Services Admin, #Trump falsely claimed he was eliminating Biden-era #funding for harm reduction supplies such as “safe smoking kits & supplies” & “syringes.”

#SAMHSA was established in 1992, not under #Biden.

What it ends is regional & national quality behavioral-health services such as addiction-prevention, treatment, & recovery-support.

It will now be integrated into the new “Administration for a Healthy America”

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“His basement, his garage, his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, & he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens & mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a #perverse scene of #despair & #violence.”

She commended #RFKJr for “pulling himself out of illness & disease” but lamented “siblings & cousins who Bobby ENCOURAGED down the path of #SubstanceAbuse suffered #addiction, #illness, & #death

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Support from #parents and #caregivers plays a crucial role in the #wellbeing and development of #transgender, #nonbinary, and other #genderdiverse #children. Studies consistently show that #rejecting or exhibiting #hostility towards these children significantly increases their risk of #anxiety, #depression, #substanceabuse, and even #homelessness. Tragically, they also face a higher risk of #suicide due to rejection, #bullying, and #victimization.

(10/20) #Transgender