Until recently, Craig Mokhiber was a top U.N. official working on human rights. He just left his post with a scathing resignation letter blasting U.N. and Western complicity in Israeli abuses. Mokhiber joins Democracy Now! to talk about the current war in Gaza and more.

Dr. Liz Samuels of #FOREgrantee Bridge receives #AMERSA2023’s Best Abstract Award for the work they are doing to expand access to medications for #opioid use disorder and linkages to community care through #emergencydepartments across California and the nation. 👏

TY to AMERSA for honoring the amazing work of Bridge ED-BRIDGE & CA #EDs Supported in CA by Department of Health Care Services PHI: find us other places at PublicHealthInstitute California Endowment & nationally by Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts OpioidResponseNetwork David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA UCLA (RR/OV) EM Res ACEP Members California ACEP CSAM - California Society of Addiction Medicine UC Davis Health Department of Emergency Medicine Highland EM Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine

today, testRI is releasing a zine about caring for drug related wounds - especially as xylazine complicates wound care, we put together a comprehensive visual guide on how people can best take care of themselves. download it the pdf at the link below. medium.com/pphc/wound-car…

🚨 Very important news. “Today, the US Food & Drug Administration approved 2 milestone treatments, representing the first cell-based gene therapies for the treatment of #SickleCellDisease.” Now to make sure it gets to those who need it. #Pharmacoequity fda.gov/news-events/pr…

We were honored to join our partners Jews for Racial & Economic Justice IfNotNow🔥✡️ and Shoresh on Thursday night in New York at Chanukah for Ceasefire organized by #Rabbis4Ceasefire. We demand a permanent ceasefire now. Photo by Ginny Suss

Really excited to share my first invited commentary, in JAMA Internal Medicine, on the importance of shared decision-making in treating opioid use disorder in pregnancy (MOUD rules!). Thx to Davida Schiff, MD Kelly Knight for joining me on this perspective. 🙏🏾jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Hot off the press from SAEM, Dr. Rose Diaz, MD, MPH, assistant professor and research faculty, discusses how clinical experiences and perceptions of EM influence specialty selection by medical students, particularly women. #FOAMed Read more at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨 Applications are open for our Visiting Student Elective Diversity Scholarship! See details below 👇 #ReadyForAnything

NEW Annals of Int Med: Redlining keeps perpetuating inequity. We found a DOSE-DEPENDENT correlation between discriminatory HOLC designations & incidence of firearm fatalities. TODAY, firearm fatalities are >5X more likely to occur in areas designated "hazardous" v "best" 80 yrs ago

#Newpublication from Assistant Professor of Emergency medicine Annette Dekker, MD MS discussing healthcare outcomes in ICE facilities and how current processes can be improved to achieve transparency and accountability #FOAMed sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I smell a practice change coming in the near future ....Extended-Release 7-Day Injectable Buprenorphine for Mild Opioid Withdrawal jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

A new study published in JAMA Network Open by Gail D'Onofrio et al suggests that 7-day extended-release buprenorphine is feasible in patients with OUD presenting with minimal to mild COWS scores (4-7), and may lower barriers to treatment. Read more:

Symptoms and care for #GI & #GU side effects from #ketamine New 🔥#kcramps case report by Tucker Avra in CPC EM WestJEM With ⬆️ ketamine use ⬆️likely to see in the #ED David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA UCLA (RR/OV) EM Res escholarship.org/uc/item/0kj4h9…