In today's episode of Let's Talk About Drugs in the Intermountain West, we chat with Ajay Manhapra, Section Chief of Pain Medicine at the Hampton VA Medical Center, about his experience addressing #SUD & #recovery with the Hampton VA Medical Center. Listen now on #Spotify & #ApplePodcasts 🎧

I am so excited to be attending this conference again this year with Stefan Kertesz, MD, MSc and Ajay Manhapra 👏

The story of alcohol and health slate.com/technology/202…

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Got Butterflies in your Stomach?😵‍💫I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc The ECG! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date 🧵👇biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

If you want to see true love of football, you got to come to Kerala in India, especially during World Cup. There’s nothing like that! Mallus gooners

A SUPERSTAR in our field, JeffreySamet wins the James L. Sorensen Distinguished Treatment and Research Mentor Award at The College on Problems of Drug Dependence #CPDD2024 #CPDD24. Dr. Samet is a mentor to all, not just those at Boston University

Sunday Special: The sheer brilliance of the lyrics compounds the exuberance of this 1950s hit by Bill Forbes, parodying an Indian accent in "Oh to be in England": youtube.com/watch?v=by1YHs…

I'm supporting Yale New Haven Hospital Closer to Free Ride! do.nr/e7hqr646 via DonorDrive

A good read for all engaged in the fruitless discussion whether addiction is a brain disease or not

Oh boy, cannabis is not a magical natural medicine?!!! What am I gonna do? 😀 As America’s Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/…

OPEN ACCESS: The relationship between changes in pain intensity and functional disability in people with disabling LBP during a course of CFT is very close for most. For others disability reduces in spite of pain. Great work leading this Kasper Ussing degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

This was a lot of fun

NEW: Today I’m releasing a Surgeon General’s Report on tobacco-related health disparities in the United States. This report recognizes that while we’ve made remarkable progress reducing tobacco use in the past 60 years, that progress has not been even.

A Court Rejected the Disease Theory of Opioid Addiction. Will We Listen? filtermag.org/court-opioid-a…

It’s funny when judges become reductionist scientists. Most people who criticize disease model do not understand the model- the disease model is not devoid of psychosocial influences

Another unhelpful piece in chronic which talks about everything other than IASP accepted science of pain and it’s treatment nytimes.com/2025/01/12/mag…