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Peter Pischke-Friendly Neighborhood Journo
HappyWarriorP
Studying the statements from the 2021 Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit,I can confidently say that things are going to get tougher for pain patients,https://www.psychcongress.com/article/subject-netflix-series-pharmacist-turns-focus-pharma-
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aditi (she/her)
adimahaparty
A personal on #opioids, #nursinged & #meded, & #chronicillness:the coverage of many topics in my first semester of nursing school worried me - and the rhetoric around the #opioidepidemic
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Lauren Houston
LegalizeitLala
If you have to choose one, would you rather inject heroin or a coronavirus vaccine? I’ve taken opioids that are legal in the past, so I trust heroin more
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Patrick Radden Keefe
praddenkeefe
The AP has details of the Purdue settlement, which will be formally announced in half an hour. Lots to unpack here, but two things for now. (1/3)https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-business-criminal-investigations-opioids-epidemics-5f
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Keith Brown
keithbrownmph
Things that can all be true at same time re: Purdue:1. They were/are incredibly nefarious & terrible. 2. The singular focus on Rx/pharma as cause of OD crisis is misguided.3.
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Nicholas A. Christakis
NAChristakis
People are focused on ventilators & anti-virals, but, sadly, as a former hospice doctor, I'm worried we may not have enough opioids & anxiolytics to treat people we cannot give
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Dan Price
DanPriceSeattle
You know what would really help me as a small business owner?Universal health care. We spend millions on premiums that enrich insurance companies.Went on Fox to make this case and
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Opalusionist
opalusionist
Grabbing onto that "good moment"! Who knows when it'll come again. Like that breath b/w sinking and swimming. Treading water it's hardToday as I come up from the #pain #musclespasm
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sarah lugor!
sarahlugor
It’d be ignorant to pretend that people aren’t going to use drugs, so with that being said:if you are going to do them or know anyone who may potentially, you
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Rafik N Wahbi, MPH
RafiknWahbi
I would really like to better understand why substance use researchers are STILL doing traditional office based MOUD trials with very little atttention to underlying social and environmental root causes.
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First Evening Star
OnaagoshinAnang
I’m not sure I can adequately explain how watching the video of #JoyceEchaquan’s last moments is weighing on me. As an Indigenous woman w/ chronic illnesses the treatment she endured
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Dogs don't have thumbs
MorlockP
1/Red tribe folks instinctively (and correctly) distrust the media, government lawyers, and regulatory bureaucracies....but then, when a result aligns with their prejudices, they trust what the media says about government
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bronzejaguar
Jordan Peterson is a microcosm of Western culture.- Gets semi-famous advocating a return to tradition.- Daughter becomes semi-famous too, leaves her husband to fuck a literal pimp.- Jordan gets addicted
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Evan Yeats
Evan_Yeats
I just want to say that I raised the issue of losing federal grants and grant mismanagement with @Young_CityDC back in April of 2019 and he had no good answers.
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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
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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
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