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MMS Policy: The Massachusetts Medical Society strongly supports the rights of individuals to health, happiness, and liberty regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or nationality, and urges all governments to recognize these rights. #PrideMonth

A small step in the right direction protecting patients and families! Facebook to require treatment centers to obtain certification from monitoring firm | Behavioral Healthcare Executive behavioral.net/article/market…

A group of 5th graders wrote and published a book to help increase awareness of addiction and decrease the #stigma. The book is dedicated to "the moms, dads, sisters, and brothers struggling with addiction."

Fantastic to see this happening

Because it’s a drug epidemic as opposed to an infectious disease epidemic like Zika, the response is slower,” said Dan Ciccarone. “Because of the forces of stigma, the population is reluctant 2 seek care. nyti.ms/2MRx36Q

Sarah Wakeman Ali S. Raja, MD Surviving an overdose should mean something to providers as well not just to patients. We don’t shock people out of unstable rhythms and then kick them out on the street, we figure out how to best treat the underlying cause of their acute presentation. That’s emergency medicine.

WALSH: There Must Be A Purge In The Catholic Church. And It Must Be Brutal. | Daily Wire dailywire.com/news/34503/wal…

Should Buprenorphine Be Administered to Patients With Opioid Withdrawal in the Emergency Department? - The short answer: YES! AnnalsofEM Jennifer Love @LnelsonMD Sergey Motov reuben strayer Penn Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research Penn LDI ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29103795

Dropping my eldest at school. Happy to see these posters in all corridors

In addition to its racist and unjust undercurrents, the #WarOnDrugs has been a massive—and lethal—failure of social and health policy. To hail its blatantly flawed tactics while dismissing more compassionate approaches that actually work is inexcusable. #Shame on the #DOJ

"It can be easy to forget that recovery is not only possible but is the reality for nearly 10 percent of U.S. adults." Important piece in STAT as we approach #OverdoseAwarenessDay tomorrow and September's #RecoveryMonth. bit.ly/2wwKC4C

“Addiction training is rare in medical education. A report by Columbia University called out “the failure of medical profession at every level — in medical school, residency training, continuing education & in practice” to adequately address addiction.” nytimes.com/2018/09/10/hea…

Nobody deserves this award more Colleen LaBelle, MSN RN-BC CARN Boston Medical Center

Everyone deserves to be treated with fairness, dignity, and respect. No matter what happens in Washington, we have laws in Massachusetts that protect transgender people and guarantee equal rights. It is so important that we keep these laws in place. #YesOn3 #WontBeErased

At age 110, Canada’s oldest living person, Dr. Robert Wiener’s secret to longevity: “Just go about being nice to other people. Don’t be nasty. Treat them like human beings, the way you want to be treated.” 🌹🇨🇦

Please share broadly: FREE conference for all OB/GYN care teams in Mass "A comprehensive approach to caring for pregnant, postpartum and parenting women with substance use disorders" - Keynote by Dr. Mishka Terplan do_less_harm TO REGISTER: bmcobat.org/training/regis…

Compelling story by @Lhilgers in The New York Times on why we need to improve the quality of addiction treatment, enhance medical training and education, and help parents whose children have a substance use disorder: nyti.ms/2IVBY83

HOW is it that, two decades into an overdose crisis, access to naloxone--a drug that is literally a lifesaver--remains so totally abysmal? Less than 1 in 10 US counties have an overdose education and naloxone distribution program. And while we dither, people die x.com/barrotlambdin/…

We’re in the courtroom waiting for Weinstein. For so long he had his own private system— fancy lawyers who paid to silence women, private investigators and spies. Now he answers to the same system as the rest of us.