Just got my DEA waiver to prescribe suboxone for opioid use disorder. 🙌🙌 Reminder that you no longer need to do the 8-hr training to get the waiver!

On the converse… “how can you love and want kids and hate pediatrics?”

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Denver!!!! We’re hearing increasing reports of fentanyl in cocaine. Try not to use alone, go slow and test when you can. Please reach out for friends who need this info/access to test strips

Some days I think wow I’m so lucky to be in medicine and then other days I set my alarm for 3:30am and think what am I doing with my life #MedStudentTwitter

I am psychiatry bound! EM will always hold a special place in my heart, but psych is where I believe my skills align with what the world needs and what brings me great fulfillment. Guess I’ll have to find some other big decision to poll Twitter about now. #psychtwitter #Match2022

There is a cricket in my room that I cannot find that wakes me up with chirping every 30 minutes…is this a bad dream

Yes my father is still missing. We are doing everything we can to find him. Please help by reposting. Thank you so much.

don't get me wrong: I am addicted to caffeine, but in a wholesome, thankful way.

From the drafts, a while ago: Teenage patient came into the ER by ambulance extremely sick, very scared, covered in blood, and alone. Repeatedly asked “can somebody please hold my hand?” 💔

Feeding and housing the poor will do more to reduce crime than any amount of punishment ever will.

The public has been fed this idea that rehab is THE solution for problematic drug use. There are other options- MAT, housing programs, outpatient, groups, peer support, contingency management, solution based therapy, naltrexone, to name a few.

My wife is alive because I make a lot of money. That’s all. Many/most people could not have done what we have done. The cards fell into place for us. A doc who speaks the language and can parse the lit and knows how to advocate for his family. The $$ to get it done. 9/

My mother always believed I would find my way into recovery. She was told to cut me off by the "tough love" crowd. People also treated her as if she was somehow responsible for my addiction. The truth is, I would've died without her love and support.

Morning ☀️ reminder that people of substance also use substances. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Today is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 200th birthday. "Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all."

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are you really "easy going" or are you just bad at asserting your boundaries