Thanks The Boston Globe for highlighting importance of addiction consult teams like our Mass General Brigham team. Treating addiction like other conditions should be norm. All ppl should have the option to see a team of specialists & start treatment without delay. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/26/met…

Hope you’ll join us later this morning! Looking forward to talking with Alex Hogan from STAT about why we need to make addiction treatment a usual part of medical care and held to the same quality & equity standards. Mass General Brigham MassGeneral News

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On rounds at Grady

Me: 'How're you feeling today?'
Him: 'Well. I been better. That medicine y'all gave me made me run off!'

My team looked puzzled.
I did not.

Me: 'Oh no! You talking 'bout the medicine we gave you for your gout flare up?'
Him: 'Yeah! That one!'

Longest long run done and dusted ✅ If the training is the actual marathon and the race is the celebration, I’m ready to celebrate! Taper time here we go. Thanks to all who have supported- it means the world! givengain.com/project/sarah-… Mass General Brigham MassGeneral News

Honored to join my inspiring colleagues Dr. Lambert and Jazz Irvin for a panel at Grayken Center for Addiction conference yesterday on inequities in the overdose crisis Mass General Brigham MassGeneral News

20 mile long run today with my new front teeth! If you’re able to give any amount helps ❤️ MassGeneral News Mass General Brigham Boston Marathon givengain.com/project/sarah-…

So excited to hear the amazing Dr. Wakeman on this episode of Mel Robbins!! Sarah Wakeman Mel Robbins 🙏🏼🙏🏼💕

In this video by STAT, our senior medical director for substance use disorder Sarah Wakeman explains the severe symptoms and side effects that come with withdrawal from opioids. statnews.com/2024/03/05/why…

Spread this video by STAT with Sarah Wakeman if you know anybody who needs to learn about addiction, medications for opioid use disorder, and the 'hell' of withdrawal: statnews.com/2024/03/05/why…. This is the messaging we need.

How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the #opioids epidemic, by Lev Facher statnews.com/2024/03/05/opi… via STAT Sarah Wakeman #addiction #ToxicDrugCrisis

Fantastic deep dive by STAT journalist Lev Facher with great quotes by Ayana “TDs middle child” Jordan Zoe Weinstein MD, MS and others on the lifesaving potential of medication treatment for opioid use disorder statnews.com/2024/03/05/opi…

Watch: Why fentanyl withdrawal is agony and how medication can prevent it - Terrific explanatory video from Alex Hogan, featuring Sarah Wakeman statnews.com/2024/03/05/why… via STAT

Medications like methadone and buprenorphine are effective at treating opioid dependence but hard to access.

Sarah Wakeman explains how these medications work in the brain and can help people lead normal lives.

Video produced by Alex Hogan. trib.al/ah3md6D

Why #fentanyl withdrawal is agony. Medication can prevent excruciating symptoms but treatments are unnecessarily hard to access, by Alex Hogan statnews.com/2024/03/05/why… via STAT Sarah Wakeman #opioids #rehab

Thanks to Alex Hogan for including me in this work: Why fentanyl withdrawal is agony and how medication can prevent it statnews.com/2024/03/05/why… via STAT

Very excited to see this in print. Was delighted to contribute as an associate editor of this vital resource for the field of addiction medicine along with colleagues Sarah Wakeman and American College of Academic Addiction Medicine BOD colleague Sharon Levy, as well as Shannon Miller, Rick Rosenthal and Andy Saxon

I'm honored to be an author of a new chapter regarding system-involved youth in this fundamental resource related to Addiction Medicine led by editors like jeanette tetrault Sarah Wakeman alongside many amazing colleagues!

There is a figure being passed around Philly public health circles that 25% of city dope is cut with nitazenes. This is patently false. Philly dope is fentanyl HCL and xylazine almost exclusively. Heroin mixed in occasionally.

Honored to be an associate editor on this fundamental resource for all things Addiction Medicine alongside so many amazing colleagues!

Marathon training is reminder that whatever we are going through, we keep going. Tough stretch with a broken nose, broken teeth, canceled vacation, stomach bug but I’m still here doing 16 miles today. If you’re able, please help me cross the finish line! givengain.com/project/sarah-…