As the Supreme Court gears up to assess whether to treat homelessness as a crime, Dr Kushel reminds us that homelessness is increasingly a problem faced by elderly adults

✅In California 48% of homeless single adults are 50 year older and 3/4 of them are unsheltered

✅Our

More information on our continuing case to appeal after our motion to intervene in the DEA’s case against Dr. Bockoff

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A recent NEJM podcast “Tough Love” suggests that medical educators are bullied by demanding students & residents who wield the power of social media

Our latest “On Becoming a Healer” podcast finds missed opportunities for dialogue, and many descriptions of medical students as

1/For someone in an ER who suffered opioid overdose, is it ethical to hold her for her own safety, against her will, to prevent 'renarcotization'?
Here's our new perspective piece arguing 'not likely' w/ Kevin Riggs, MD
The journal The American Journal of Bioethics

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(I) have loved every episode of On Becoming a Healer I've listened to so far!). It is our obligation as physicians to recognize and avoid getting co-opted into punitive systems.
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Stefan Kertesz, MD, MSc Jeffrey A. Singer Maia Szalavitz new (Australian) data on long term opioid use among opioid naive patients who iniate opioids for the first time in hospital or ED youtu.be/2BT_sxIBr8g?si…

Great episode for health care leaders and anyone precepting or teaching!

The perfect day to present National Academy of Medicine alongside experts Cynthia Rogers, M.D Ayana “TDs middle child” Jordan & Dr Katie Lovero. As we enter yr 8 of the Opioid Public Health Emergency, we must build capacity in rural, poor communities, like AL, to meet patients where they are #HealthEquity #EndOverdose