Oliver Knabe · @oliverknabe
11 followers · 29 posts · Server berlin.social

: "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" von Laura Poitras ĂĽber die Fotografin und Aktivistin Nan Goldin
🎫 Kinokarten lohnen!
rbb-online.de/rbbkultur/themen

#filmtipp #OpiodCrisis

Last updated 1 year ago

MerelyAHut · @MerelyAHut
114 followers · 1886 posts · Server newsie.social
Dr Bob · @drrjv
238 followers · 1722 posts · Server vmst.io

“Pharmaceutical companies have used the crisis, and the nation’s fear of , to aggressively market high-cost products that divert resources away from cheaper forms of the lifesaving medication.”

statnews.com/2023/03/28/opioid

#opioid #fentanyl #naloxone #narcan #OpiodCrisis #bigpharma

Last updated 2 years ago

Margaret Sefton · @MargaretSefton
588 followers · 2299 posts · Server writing.exchange

A treat for the eyes, food for the soul, a precious piece of movie therapy healing. Avail yourself of the goodness.
imdb.com/title/tt21374850/?ref

#nyc #photography #aids #OpiodCrisis #ArtActivism #sackler #nangoldin

Last updated 2 years ago

Carolyn Barber, MD · @cbarbermd
352 followers · 345 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
Carolyn Barber, MD · @cbarbermd
307 followers · 270 posts · Server med-mastodon.com

Virtually everyone examined by the co-conspirator physicians received a prescription for controlled substances," court documents said.

“Chris George, who is out on parole, continues to deflect blame for his drugs' deadly toll onto his former patients.

"They act like I'm the bad guy here 'cause I owned a business. You know, in this country, anybody can open a business."

#OpiodCrisis #medicine #medtwitter

Last updated 2 years ago

The Meaning of Pain · @tmopain
19 followers · 17 posts · Server med-mastodon.com

If you’re interested in social determinants of health (and I believe you should be), check out this study from the Nov. issue of that examines the risk factors and consequences of pain experienced by adults living in precarious housing or .

How can we effectively address the epidemic if we don’t first ensure patients’ most basic needs are met?

journals.lww.com/pain/Fulltext

#pain #homelessness #overdose #SdOH #OpiodCrisis

Last updated 2 years ago

· @rvaughnmd
124 followers · 118 posts · Server med-mastodon.com

"The crisis continues to rage, having morphed from an epidemic of pharmaceutical painkiller addiction to heroin addiction and now to fentanyl addiction. More than 100,000 Americans lost their lives to overdoses last year. Taking the Sackler name off of a few lecture halls is no victory, and it is certainly not accountability, either. This is, at its essence, a story in which the bad guys get away with it in the end."

#books #OpiodCrisis

Last updated 2 years ago

· @rvaughnmd
124 followers · 118 posts · Server med-mastodon.com

"The story of the drug trade is too often told purely from the supply side, when the truth is that American demand is the engine, American dollars purchase the drugs and are then laundered using American banks and sent back to Mexico to bribe officials and undermine public trust."

#WarOnDrugs #OpiodCrisis

Last updated 2 years ago

· @rvaughnmd
124 followers · 118 posts · Server med-mastodon.com

Good read.

Patrick Radden Keefe on the Opioid Crisis, the Sacklers, and the Unsavory Game of Philanthropic Reputation Laundering

lithub.com/patrick-radden-keef

#OpiodCrisis

Last updated 2 years ago