Building back better means passing the Medicaid Reentry Act. Thank you to The Hill for publishing my op-Ed discussing the some challenges of bringing Medicaid into jails and prisons. thehill.com/opinion/health…

Add your voice on important Section 35 legislation and budget allocations in MA! End the use of prisons and reallocate funding to community-based treatment: secure.everyaction.com/t_I_HoqJIESlF-…

"Nobody Should Die In Handcuffs." Moving presentation from Doreen Danesh at the Friday Plenary Session. Dorreen Danesh, MD #SGIM22

On June 18th, we are marching on Washington for Jobs, Freedom, and Equality. Poor People's Campaign Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. Join the March, or mobilize in your community: actionnetwork.org/forms/june-202…

Air conditioning and ventilation are not “luxuries” for incarcerated people. Imagine being confined in a closet that’s built from baking hot concrete and doesn’t have any working windows or vents, all while the heat index in the room rises as high as 150 degrees. That’s torture.

NEW: *21%* of Black Tennesseeans can’t vote because of felony convictions. TN is the state with the highest rates of both Black and Latino (8%) disenfranchisement in the country. propublica.org/article/tennes… ProPublica

Prior #incarceration a/w higher rates of #mentalillness, more depression symptoms & worse mental health-related QoL at age 50, adjusting for early-life factors (n=7889; national cohort followed since 1979) Ben Bovell-Ammon, MD, MPH @LaRochelleMarc @adFoxMD link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Cancer is the leading cause of death for incarcerated people, yet critical knowledge gaps between incarceration and cancer outcomes remain. Read this paper to explore the connection between incarceration and cancer: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36112653

Offering buprenorphine during incarceration may improve treatment receipt during the critical postrelease period, these results suggest. ja.ma/48ZUSm5

Excited to share our new paper on how to use target trial emulation to study the comparative effectiveness of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) using observational data Out now and open-access in Addiction Journal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/I4AZPJ3V…

New DAD paper: buprenorphine and naltrexone increased post-incarceration, but methadone decreased. White persons received more medications for opioid use disorder than black persons before and after prison stays sciencedirect.com/science/articl…