#Opioids

Betsy Garrold

BetsyGarrold

@ariearieinfree I may be telling you things you already know but I really wish some bright young researcher would look into the history of the smiley/frowny chart 1-10 scale pain

National Harm Reduction Coalition

HarmReduction

We recently had the pleasure of speaking w/ @DOPEproject team about what to do & say after you've used naloxone to reverse an overdose from opioids. A medical emergency like

scrutable

jon23399797

These "my lab without immigrants" pictures are fascinating to me. The basic frame you have to accept is that vital research is getting done. But, really, there haven't been major

Taliesin Magboo Cahill

tmc_RN

Fun friday fact about opioid overdoses: many people think that 'mild' overdoses are the ones where we 'just' give oxygen, and the severity of an overdose can be judged by

Shawn Martin

rshawnm

A 17-part thread on independent practices legislative fights and the distractions they represent.First, I am troubled that we continue to have these policy fights. They are a waste of time,

Patrick I. Emelife, M.D.

IfesinachiMD

1) This morning, as I listened to Chapter 10 (America’s Three Opioid Epidemics) of Dr. Travis Rieder’s book, “In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids,” I could not control

Zoë McLaren, PhD

ZoeMcLaren

I'm very optimistic about US vaccine supply in the coming months. The bottom line is that the Trump administration left a lot of money on the table. It won't be

Elaine Hyshka

ehyshka

Overdose deaths were increasing in March before people could even apply for CERB payments. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes has reported that border closures are disrupting illegal

🥂 marquis de posade 🏖

acczibit

Weird way of saying "privatizations followed by pauperization" 3 times but yeah the crowd is righthttps://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1294986666101420032 Oh you don't want the right of JP Morgan to buy state industries for

Stefan Kertesz, MD

StefanKertesz

1/FYI:Opioid Rx’s 60% vs 9 years ago. Outcomes have not been good. OD deaths are way , & patients traumatizedThis thread covers 4 years of my peer-reviewed articles.Let’s recalibrate

Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS

17cShyteposter

21st century schizophrenic mindset arises from the triple realization that1) the "guardians of the truth" are lying to you2) there's no alternate authority out there who can tell you what

Stefan Kertesz, MD

StefanKertesz

1/Last week we launched CSI:OPIOIDs, our research survey for bereaved families+friends who have lost a person with pain to suicide during a change in opioid prescribing. I want to say

Tony Duffy 💙

Existential_Doc

Opioid toxicty: A thread (with a palliative theme)Let’s start by thinking about tue difference between side-effects of opioids from toxicity. Side-effects: the secondary, usually undesirable effects other than pain reliefConstipationDry

Andy Mychkovsky 🍕

AMychkovsky

Let’s talk about Amazon Pharmacy, and whether all the fuss is actually warranted or not.First thing to know is they are actually launching 2 programs simultaneously: 1) mail-order Pharmacy; and

Zavén Sargsyan

sargsyanz

“Satting a hundred and slipping away.”Using the alveolar gas equation to understand one of the potential risks of unnecessary supplemental oxygen. #Tweetorial #MedThread 1/6 When you admit a patient with

Omar Mosleh

OmarMosleh

THREAD - I wanted to see if the opioid epidemic has escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The short answer is yes. Some of my findings were alarming - Ontario's chief

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