#Opioid

DPA NY Policy Office

DPA_NY

This big shift highlights the need to permanently eliminate drug tests from @NYSDOCCS. Instead of doubling down on punitive approaches to drugs w unreliable tests, DOCCS should ensure incarcerated ppl

Jamie Lee, DPT, FNP

jamieleeDPT_FNP

Since we're on the topic of DO misconception, I'd like to point out misconceptions of the DPT. It revamped its curriculum from the previous iteration by adding classes that make

Gene W..🏇🌈🥂🪂🎭⛪️❤️🇺🇸🕍

GeneW22614687

1/5 Crime Report identified 263 registered physicians, convicted and imprisoned on charges brought by the DEA DIVERSION UNIT between 2003 and 2017. All cases were mainly related to opioid prescriptions...

See Her Bloom

SeeHerBloomOrg

Racial gaslighting deflects the important issue at hand our sisters experiencing opioid addiction face, and it silences voices that need to be heard.Here, we address all the misconceptions and challenge

Caroline Reilly

ms_creilly

prince would still be here today if doctors gave him proper pain management prince died because he was trying to relieve his pain, it's that simple. we (rightly) talk a

Michael Rosen

MLInnovations

[Thread] With the conviction of Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd, we have seen a police officer held to account. Sadly, police killings of unarmed people, particularly the shooting deaths

loni (they them)

singulathey

crackhead, and how addiction and drug use is viewed and discussed broadly, is racialized and always has been. there's a reason the word crackhead exists and is used as a

Sheldon Bailey

sheldonbailey

(1) The last paragraph of this article makes unsubstantiated claims, particularly in regards to the Disease of Addiction. In summary, it says we must decriminalize + create a legal regulated

Courtney Hessler

HesslerHD

I am back for day #7 of the opioid trial. My previous reporting had said 81 million opioid pills had been shipped to Cabell Co. from 2006-2014, but an expert

Michael Luo

michaelluo

NEW from ⁦@praddenkeefe⁩: While opioid deaths have surged during the pandemic, the Sackler family has been quietly staging an end game in which it will keep most of its fortune—and

Abraham Gutman 🔥

abgutman

"Poverty = bullets" sounds progressive on the surface but it is not. It actually demonizes people living in poverty.Using "0.5% of population responsible for 60% of shootings," that's 7,500 people

Stefan Kertesz, MD

StefanKertesz

1/Bioethicist @TNREthx offers peer-reviewed paper #3 to find nonconsensual opioid tapering of stable patients unethical. (Links to other 2 below). This unethical practice is incentivized by: quality metrics, @CMSGov, SUPPORT

Karine Meador

DrKLMeador

There's certainly a lot to digest from yesterday's Q2 Alberta Opioid Response Surveillance Report. https://www.alberta.ca/opioid-reports.aspxThe numbers, to put it plainly, are devastating. Long and educational thread to follow on o

Chris Windeyer

chriswindeyer

I've heard from a few people surprised by Dr. Brendan Hanley's, er, combative tone during yesterday's news conference. I'd prefer to believe that Dr. Hanley, like a lot of us,

headsUPmigraine

headsUPmigraine

.@NBCJoshua Illegal, not medical, #opioid use fuels ODs, which have risen exponentially since at least 1979, predating more liberal prescribing patterns. Addiction & use aren't rising: people are taking increasingly

Rachel Browne

rp_browne

It's impossible to get real-time, national overdose data in Canada. But I pieced together what I could.In Ontario alone nearly 900 ppl died of confirmed/probable opioid ODs from *Jan to