Overdose and homelessness🧵: in JAMA Network Open Danielle Fine & colleagues (I was a minor contributor) show how overdose patterns have worsened and changed, with specific analysis by race/ethnicity. Background, and paper:/1

In 2020, nearly 92,000 people fatally overdosed. When I asked Sarah Wakeman why that happened, she blamed "failed policies" and stigma and said, "No one should die from an overdose." pbs.org/newshour/healt…

1 in 4. The rate at which #overdose accounts for deaths in Boston's #homeless population as shown in research by Jessie Gaeta @TPBaggett Joe Wright @loganadamsmd Kirsten Dickins Danielle Fine ow.ly/IEzv50Hs7kr

🚨Important JAMA Network pub🚨 "Drug Overdose Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness, 2003 to 2018" by Danielle Fine Kirsten Dickins @loganadamsmd jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Currently, I have patients (multiple) needing surgery on dead limbs due to frostbite AND patients (multiple) hospitalized with severe burns from propane-fueled tent fires. Being homeless means you’re damned if you do AND if you don’t. It’s life threatening either way.

This large cohort study of people experiencing homelessness revealed a widening all-cause mortality gap with the general population over 16 years. ja.ma/3YJO9aD

Our study found that encampment clearance/sweeps could increase deaths among people experiencing homelessness by 25% by 2028. "Sweeping" people is not a solution to #homelessness, but is rather a form of (costly) state-sponsored violence.

So excited to share my essay in The Washington Post madebyhistory. Nixon-era, War on Drugs politics are to blame for the stigma and inaccessibility of methadone, one of the most effective medications for opioid addiction. washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Buprenorphine is a lifesaving medication approved for pregnant people w/ opioid use disorder. Patients on this medication are 50% less likely to die of a fatal overdose. But the drug war gives parents w/ 2 options: 1) overdose, or 2) lose your kids. nytimes.com/2023/06/29/mag…

10 things we've learned from the National Recovery Study: A full compilation of ten key findings from the MGH Recovery Research Institute's National Recovery Study (NRS) | #RecoveryMonth #AddictionRecovery #recovery #RecoveryThroughScience

With #NationalAddictionTreatmentWeek being last week I’m pleased to introduce a new facet to our mobile program. Project MAPS will provide mobile addiction & primary care services in collaboration with the DOC. Thrilled to have Logan Adams as our addiction medicine physician!

Grateful to The Boston Globe for elevating the urgent need to make #methadone - a lifesaving medication - available through doctors' offices and pharmacies. bostonglobe.com/2023/11/09/opi… via

“The choice is between creating centers where people can not die from overdose versus [...] die behind bedroom doors down the hall from their parents, in public restrooms & alleyways.” - Sr. Medical Director for Substance Use Disorders, Sarah Wakeman. We need legislation. ⬇️

In their new Forefront article Sudhakar Nuti David Velasquez, MD Logan Adams + James O'Connell of NYC Health + Hospitals Brigham and Women's Hospital Duke University School of Medicine + Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program say how Permanent Supportive Housing w/ a Housing First approach is the best way to address homelessness. bit.ly/4cEIHNT

We believe that permanent supportive housing is the best solution to address chronic homelessness in America. And we also believe that this solution has room for improvement. Our latest in Health Affairs led by the phenomenal Sudhakar Nuti, +Logan Adams & the legendary James

Toughest Team Wins!!!!