"We are bearing witness to what fear can do to the health of a community" A poignant piece @NEJM about the Minneapolis devastation "We care for our patients because they are human beings. Our patients are being harmed. People are dying unnecessarily." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

The entire SAMHSA staff that manages the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been terminated. This is the only survey that tracks mental health and substance use trends in the US. We really are flying blind now.

HHS doctors, scientists and tobacco control staff, rare disease experts, cancer drug wizards -- all fired today or leaving in recent weeks. Yet. 🚨 At HHS, staff make up less than one percent of the overall agency budget. 🚨 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

Federal Health Workers Make Up Less Than 1% of Agency Spending (Gift Article)

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests that laying off thousands of federal workers would tame a massive budget. But nearly all of the agency’s money goes to hospitals, doctors and nursing ho...

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"This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history." Story on the decimation of NIH by @maxkozlov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...?

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs

In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

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Hot off the press in @sajamersa.bsky.social: “Un attracteur de soins”: Bringing People Into Care. Interdisciplinary Health Care Professionals’ Attitudes Toward Opioid Agonist Therapy in France: a Qualitative Study with Implications for the United States/ 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today. Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.

Viewpoint: Recent disruptions and funding cuts at the NIH undermine the infrastructure and stability of US scientific research, threatening the nation's global leadership and scientific productivity. https://ja.ma/3FLvqHS

American Science in Peril

This Viewpoint discusses the importance of federal funding of biomedical research from the National Institutes of Health to scientific discovery, advancements in individual and public health, and the support of the US’ community of scientists.

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Congrats to @suenlw.bsky.social & team (& @amersa.org Board Members!) for receiving the 2024 SAj Most Downloaded Paper Award: " #Methadone Resurgence in Bridging the Treatment Gap in the #Overdose Crisis: Position Statement of #AMERSA, Inc).Science into advocacy! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Hello Bluesky! 📣If you haven't heard it yet, check out our latest episode of "Behind the Evidence" w Dr Ayesha Appa - produced with BMCs Grayken Center for Addiction. We talk with authors about innovative research with real-world practice and policy implications rss.com/podcasts/beh...