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Stefan Kertesz, MD

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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

1/ I am so thankful the AMA featured our CDC submission on pain/opioids in their email blast to hundreds of medical societies and organizations nationally. I want to note key

1/great piece by @CarlynZwaren addresses how we misconstrue associations between substance use and homelessness. The stories we tell, often enough, are “my addiction made me homeless”https://filtermag.org/drugs-homelessness/ https://twi

1/Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is looking worse&worse as an option for care of #COVID19 The best new study offers a *superb* example of a statistical approach to data where treatment wasn't randomly

1/The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in homeless shelters differs by whether there has been a known “cluster” according to new data from @cdcgov My illustrations and thoughts follow (inspired by

1/Yesterday, I chatted with 4 men clustered under an eave. I'll share what I learned in order to(a)energize #COVID19 #homeless responses &(b)reinforce that we are connected - even as this

1/I have spent part of my time assisting VA and community efforts to address #homelessness in tandem with COVID19, not usually as “lead” but as “support”. I have some reflections

1. Lets speak to @mattyglesias question: why keep liquor stores open? I am an addiction doc and scientist and I personally urged our health officer to keep them open now.https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1245808274366181378