DON'T: use urine toxicology testing to 'fire' patients or make them feel untrustworthy
DO: use it for #AprilFools gags on pre-med students

Congratulations, Wab Kinew and congratulations Manitoba for choosing Reconciliation over conceal-iation.
#SearchTheLandfill

🗓️ Don't miss today's debate-style event ft. arguments in favour & against transforming the CMOH into a more independent position. Two debating teams include: Patrick Fafard, Elaine Hyshka, Hakique Virani🟠, and Jared Wesley.
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Hey @ViraniArif, congratulations on the cabinet thing. Listen, would you read this? Then we'll discuss it at Thanksgiving dinner. K, thanks,
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The compulsion to put a label on every difference: Diagnosis Use Disorder (DUD).

We spend Christmastime with the people we love most.
Like we do on birthdays.
My birthday happens to be Christmas Day.
And this one - the first without my dad - is the worst one of my life.

I feel like people on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside would understand.
(Story/Thread)

Excellent new op-ed by Maia Szalavitz. It’s so important to contextualize our drug crisis in economic and political histories. Read this, and everything else she writes. nytimes.com/2022/09/29/opi…

This morning, my wife left Orlando, Florida aboard Southwest Airlines flight 1630 (MCO to PHX).

She sat behind this man. She had been attending the Grace Hopper Conference all week and was resting her head on her tray table, trying to sleep a bit.

Let me tell you what happened.

Calgary folks! U Calgary is screening our documentary Beyond Fentanyl on the latest wave of the overdose crisis for free on Oct. 2, followed by a panel discussion with Rebecca Haines-Saah and Hakique Virani🟠. I'm going to zoom in for it! details here: alumni.ucalgary.ca/programs/alumn…

My latest…on bereavement camps for kids. How a summer camp which helped grieving children who lost parents in 9/11 is now helping grieving children who lost a loved one to COVID. USA TODAY

Immense thank you to those who shared their stories with me.

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You'll always remember where you were and what you were doing today when you heard. If you're a Pakistani kid, you were wading through sewage thinking how nice it would be to live till the weekend, let alone age 96.

Everyone in the global North is also crying today because at least 33 million people in Pakistan remain displaced by monsoon flooding related to anthropogenic climate change, right? Right?

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This kind of thing never happens to me. 🫤