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Morgan Godvin

Portland
As seen in: JSTOR Daily, Medium, VICE, The Marshall Project, medRxiv, Filter
Covers:  Criminal justice reform, harm reduction, jails and prisons, addiction, overdose, immigration.
pardon applicant | researcher | former prisoner | drug policy + substance use research | @ucla | veterans | lifelong Oregonian

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Morgan Godvin’s Biography

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Catapulted from a few lives worth of lived experience, I now weave my first person narratives into journalistic pieces highlighting the injustice of our justice system.

Morgan Godvin’s Journalist Portfolio

When Almost All Your Fellow Inmates Speak Another Language

When Almost All Your Fellow Inmates Speak Another Language

This article was published in collaboration with the Marshall Project. I always knew high school Spanish woul…

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Money Changed Everything for Me in Prison

Money Changed Everything for Me in Prison

Prison is surprisingly expensive. Having money brings more than comfort--it brings success after prison. For …

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Opinion: Incarceration won't fix our drug crisis

Opinion: Incarceration won't fix our drug crisis

Godvin is a community health education major at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. She was sentenced to fe…

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Rapid emergence of UV stabilizer Bis(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate (BTMPS) in the illicit fentanyl supply across the United States in July-August 2024: Results from drug and drug paraphernalia testing

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By Chelsea L Shover, Morgan Godvin, Meghan Appley, Elise M. Pyfrom
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The authors have declared no competing interest. A portion of this work was funded by the Division of Overdose Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Authors were also funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health. I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.
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The Spravato Diaries: My Ketamine-ish Depression Treatment

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By Morgan Godvin
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In the fall of 2020, COVID lockdown-induced depression triggered my incarceration-related PTSD and related suicidal ideation. So I looked into the bougie ketamine clinic I’d seen sponsoring a Los Angeles area highway. The cost? $6,000 for a month. It was out of my reach. A gram of ketamine, about two months’ worth of therapeutic doses, costs around $100 on the illicit market. But that was out of my comfort zone and purview. Instead, I got prescribed Xanax and made it through.
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The Counterfeit, Fentanyl-Based Pills Sold at Some Mexican Pharmacies

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By Morgan Godvin
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Counterfeit phamaceutical pills containing fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine are being sold out of Mexican pharmacies catering to customers from the United States, as a new academic preprint, which I co-authored, details.
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