🤔It appears someone is having a bad week, their *misstatements* in court have been called out" Andrea Anderson Chad D. Kollas, MD (he/him/his) TameraLynn Stewart #P3A #WeFight4U b/c #PainSucks Check Your Tube Station 🇬🇭 Nita Ghei PhD, JD, Migraine-BOT @donnelsonguy Michael Ney @MikeMcAulay3 Henry C. Davis Brian Forman D.S. Nelson Illicit fentanyl is killing people reason.com/2021/11/02/a-s…

My newest Piano Album/EP thing: maxxlamb.bandcamp.com/album/life-and… It's #ambient and good #background #music

It's built on 2016 and expanded. And we know how much harm misapplication of the 2016 Guideline did. Usually you check and correct the safety features of a plane before you expand the fleet... 24/

The CDC implementation materials look pretty good. Below -- what the Guideline IS intended to be... cdc.gov/opioids/health…

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3/Stories of suicide are not typically impulsive acts, but actions that reflect a lot of consideration for someone bearing up with extraordinary pain. A powerful intro to the #988CrisisTalk learning community is this video featuring David Covington youtube.com/watch?v=_nJdo1…

The Medical Board of California's new prescribing guidelines allow for doctors to prescribe high-dose #opioids and exempt patients in #hospice or #palliative care from any kind of limits on treatment. @MedBoardOfCA #cpp #chronicpain 📷 bit.ly/44mnweX

5/I hope m Michigan journalists ask who drafted this statement. ✅Every time we invoke a tragedy that has befallen people who died by overdose, or whose addiction devastated a family, I urge all of us to scrutinize who is seeking financial advantage, and how.

1/New Podcast: “Dire Consequences” ✅ 52% of med students were denied disability accommodation for the high-stakes USMLE exam, even when they applied with their own *medical school’s endorsement* New 🔊 from On Becoming a Healer with Kristina H. Petersen pod.link/healer/episode…

We are still recruiting survivors of #suicideloss to participate in #CSIOpioids. If you have lost someone with pain to suicide, please consider taking our brief screening survey: bit.ly/46ngRCD Stefan Kertesz, MD, MSc Anne Fuqua @MeganMc_MedAnth

2/2 and the recent CO law Kate Nicholson posted about, along with the CA guideline changes. I thought this particular national wound would've taken longer to start to mend than it has, but I am glad that there have been victories on this front. Certainly brings me hope.

1/For patients on opioids, weighing “risks vs benefits” with shared decisionmaking – as CDC urged- may be out of reach for today’s doctors & patients. Writing in SAj_AMERSA Pooja Lagisetty & I propose weighing Harms of continuing vs Harms of reducing A🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

For those interested in offering public comment on the American Psychological Association's Draft Guideline for the Treatment of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain, it is now available for reading and commenting at this link: apps.apa.org/CommentCentral… Patients - Please be heard!

Save the Date : Thursday November 30, 2023 at 4pm Eastern #NoMoreSuicides Public presentation hosted by Grayken Center for Addiction (QR code has the Zoom link)

This Reason video (and the article) is nothing short of spectacular, succinct, compact (9 min), and details many of the issues with how the opioid crisis is politically misrepresented to the harm of all involved. Only wish it came out years prior. youtu.be/BgOha0v6BDg?si…

If you know family members or survivors of a Veteran lost by suicide after prescription opioid reduction or stoppage, let them know there is a formal research study. We are interviewing survivors to prevent these tragedies Send them this image & check CSIOPIOIDs.org

Children with sickle cell disease who were given #opioids for an acute pain crisis showed no signs of misusing or becoming addicted to opioids long-term, according to a new study. #cpp #chronicpain rebrand.ly/0hy7klv

Rx #opioids were detected in only 8% of the urine samples that test positive for #fentanyl – far less than stimulants, cocaine and other substances. In fact, you are about 2x as likely to find two other medications -- benzodiazepines and gabapentin. #cpp rebrand.ly/u3ptkqw