we are living through an epidemic of people listening to shit on their phones without headphones

Join us at Stanford! We're seeking a faculty investigator in clinical pain research to join the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. Come join our interdisciplinary group of pain researchers, and let's work together to reduce pain in the individual and…

Medical science is cool.
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interviewer:
are there any accomplishments from your last job that you’re particularly proud of?

me:
i’m responsible for ten new rules in their employee handbook

interviewer:
that’s great! you wrote them?

me:
that’s not what i said

When I see people pronouncing on here that they are on the right side of everything and anyone who disagrees with them is evil I think of the apocryphal prayer 'Lord, grant me the wisdom to seek the truth and save me from those who think they have found it'.

Always wondered what held battleships together so I read a book about it.

It was riveting.

Medical science is cool.
bbc.com/news/health-68…

I choose to believe that entertainment legends dying in their fifties and sixties demonstrates the dangers of drug abuse, rather than the remorseless operation of actuarial curves on a sizable sample.

Estimated Number of Children Who Lost a Parent to Drug Overdose in the US From 2011 to 2021 | Toxicology | JAMA Psychiatry | JAMA Network

More than 320,000 children lost a parent to a drug overdose! victimless activity? Families suffer immensely from SUD jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Happy US publication day to me! simonandschuster.com/books/Everythi… Americans: please go and buy my book. It’s about Bayes’ theorem. It’s pretty good! I promise!

New review up at All Good Movies. Robert Wise's The Body Snatcher is a chilling tale of murder and medicine that highlights the horrifying gifts of Boris Karloff and Val Lewton. No spoiler review at link.
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Join us at the PROSPER Symposium on May 30, 2024, 9am-1pm in Vancouver! Keynote speakers include william yoachim, Brad West, Kevin Sabet, Prof. Keith Humphreys, and more!

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The author's unwillingness to make Kirn simpler or more easily understood than he is really made this profile sing.

Today is National Fentanyl Awareness Day. 300,000 Americans have died since 2020 from Fentanyl overdose. We must speak up and stand for change in our drug policy. Kevin Sabet Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions ONDCP Families Against Fentanyl FentanylSolution.org Onepillkills (Fentanyl) National Fentanyl Awareness Day Keith Humphreys JEPPDX

“A major impediment” to care for substance use disorders, “is the refusal of 10 states to expand Medicaid despite generous federal matching rates on their spending.”

This decision limits:
✅long term investments in addiction care
✅ development of an addiction workforce…

R.I.P. Richard Tandy. He and Lynne were magical together
youtu.be/t0AuhqFFsyU?si…

Keith Humphreys I'm amazed that this is still a thing. This video should be required viewing.
youtube.com/watch?v=14VYnF…

Feeling insecure because I suspect some of the porn bots who follow me don't fully value me as a human being.

The rebellion against the 'chart crime' vigilantes begins today!
Completely agree it's fine to have some charts where the Y-Axis does not start at zero. It's just common sense.

.Keith Humphreys, Christina Andrews, and Richard Frank provide an excellent summary of the state of play--'Progress and Challenges in Medicaid-financed Care of Substance Use Disorder.' ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…