The single most powerful presentation I have seen in recent memory was about work toward ending solitary confinement from Amend. If you don’t know their work, you should. amend.us

In search of a med student/resident/addiction fellow interested in writing up a journal article summarizing the literature and current practices on methadone missed dose policies with me and marginalutilite 🙏 👀

“Everybody is impacted. Everybody's hurting”: Grief, loss and the emotional impacts of overdose on harm reduction workers' by Gillian Kolla, PhD et al (2024) via International Journal of Drug Policy...how is your community dealing with grief in regards to the overdose crisis?

LInk: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Love this diagram that shows the landscape of AI/ML with the alphabet soup #SHMConverge24 Society of Hospital Medicine by Zhe Chen

As measles becomes more prevalent in the community (and news headlines), carceral facilities should not be overlooked in this pending public health issue.

thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

Alysse Wurcel

👏👏👏 to ASAM for putting on this kind of stellar plenary panel of superstars: Aaron Ferguson Yngvild Olsen Ruth Potee, MD, FASAM

Really important article on the availability of medication for opioid use disorder in the New York State prison system since mandated to do it in 2022. Their data with low % of Black pts on these live-saving medications suggesting racialized disparities in access

Unpopular take: framing the physician as the person best equipped to deal with patients’ spiritual struggles or loneliness feels a little like a backslide towards paternalism.

(But yes, we should be aware of how these things inform a patient’s health)

22% of people in state prisons today were homeless/in transitional housing when they were arrested. The data is clear: One of this country’s leading responses to homelessness is incarceration.

Why is it so hard to get methadone to treat opioid addiction? bostonglobe.com/2024/03/17/opi… via The Boston Globe #MOUD Paul Hammond

Opioid deaths involving polydrug use are now more prevalent than those involving only opioids. What often goes unnoticed is that deaths involving more than 1 substance are increasing faster among Black Americans. That was the impetus for our latest study link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🧵“'You can’t say that you want people to stop using drugs and then every time I call for a detox bed, there’s not a bed,' said Alixe Dittmore, the housing and shelter capacity building coordinator with the [NHRC],' as reported by Stateline...

bit.ly/StatelineXylaz…