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At #SGIM23? Come check out this awesome session on innovations in care delivery for vulnerable populations, including our work VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System about applying principles of motivational interviewing to improve pathways to outpatient SUD care.

So excited for this! 🤩🤩 We are hosting a conference on methadone reform in the US. We hope to unite a diverse community to lead these urgent reforms. Stay tuned for more info. National Coalition to Liberate Methadone The Pew Trusts Vital Strategies National Survivors Union (NSU, formerly USU)

This is perhaps the most innovative use of opioid settlement funds to date One to watch 👀

Great program from Dateline Australia featuring our PHS Medical Director. Dr. Christy Sutherland talking about prescribing fentanyl as a safe supply drug:

🧵1/ I have a new paper out in JAMA Network Open: A thematic analysis of state Medicaid buprenorphine prior authorization forms. We try to ascertain what might states want or signal by adding this bureaucratic hurdle to accessing a life-saving medication. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Published today in BMJ Mental Health! Our paper found that individuals with OUD on Buprenorphine receiving prescription amphetamines have improved retention to treatment, with no higher risk of drug-related intoxication. mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/26/1/e…

Vivitrol does not have the lifesaving benefits associated with methadone & buprenorphine. A re-analysis of a pivotal clinical trial shows that people who take it are twice as likely to overdose scientificamerican.com/article/vivitr… the record needs correcting

After one year of operating our heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine compassion club, we have analyzed our data and presented preliminary findings here.

New paper alert: "This study found no evidence of an association between legal changes that removed or substantially reduced criminal penalties for drug possession in Oregon and Washington and fatal drug overdose rates." jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

OTP Medical Director here. At our clinic we try our best. But at every turn regulation stymies our ability to get life-saving methadone to those who need it. Many of those we fail die. Alternatives to outdated, inaccessible OTPs are desperately needed. MOTAA provides one.

New paper alert. Q: can intensive primary care using “ambulatory ICUs” can impact 6-month hospitalizations in an urban healthcare for homeless setting. Partnered research with Central City Concern and OHSU News

Holy shit. President Biden just blanket pardoned all federal marijuana possession and marijuana use charges. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Out today in Health Affairs: If you have a child that needs residential treatment for OUD, the average out-of-pocket cost for a month of treatment is $26,353. Twenty-three states in the US have no residential treatment facility, or don't have one that accepts Medicaid. ⬇️

Powerful recovery voices lead open letter to Congress, urging access to methadone treatment through addiction specialists. Let's challenge status quo & support recovery. Read their letter Energy and Commerce Committee Energy & Commerce Democrats House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 House Judiciary Dems HELP Committee Dems Senate HELP Committee GOP

At-home COVID tests are free from the government only until the end of the week. Please make sure you get all that you can! These tests are very useful. special.usps.com/testkits

A 50-year-old law limits many Americans’ access to addiction treatment that is right for them.  To learn more about pending legislation to reform methadone access, click here:  asam.org/advocacy/natio…

Amazing panel at the VA national OTP conference today with JC, SAMHSA, DEA, and VA leadership all taking questions from the field about the confounding rules governing the provision of life-saving methadone care.

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

Addiction folks, we have a new publication out on treating non-prescribed benzodiazepine withdrawal in a low-barrier outpatient bridge clinic @JAM_ASAM Lead by the brilliant Jordy Laks with Jessica Taylor, MD Check it out: journals.lww.com/journaladdicti… 1/7

There’s a tragic feature in our nation’s soaring overdose crisis: all too often fatal od’s occur when someone’s alone. As in, no one’s there to call 911, to give a lifesaving antidote. ⁦Enter hotlines and biosensors. New from David Ovalle⁩ & me: washingtonpost.com/health/2024/10…