Muhammad Aadil MD
@aadil9.bsky.social
Addiction Psychiatry | @YalePsych alumni | Advocate for Mental Health, Harm Reduction & Recovery | Views mine
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The media & the right made SF a proving ground for harm reduction - which was never even implemented at scale - and claimed rising ODs (from the emergence of fentanyl) meant harm reduction “didn’t work.”
Since cutting harm reduction, deaths are up 50%. Cause harm reduction works & policing doesn’t.
Since cutting harm reduction, deaths are up 50%. Cause harm reduction works & policing doesn’t.
Fentanyl deaths are up by 50 percent in San Francisco after Mayor Lurie replaced harm reduction programs with police and prisons. It's almost like you put lives in danger when you treat a public health problem like it's a crime
48hills.org/2025/05/fent...
48hills.org/2025/05/fent...
Fentanyl deaths up 50 percent in three months; why isn't this a big news story? - 48 hills
Plus: A terrible project that Yimby, Wiener and Co. has forced on San Francisco. That's The Agenda for May 11-18
48hills.org
May 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The media & the right made SF a proving ground for harm reduction - which was never even implemented at scale - and claimed rising ODs (from the emergence of fentanyl) meant harm reduction “didn’t work.”
Since cutting harm reduction, deaths are up 50%. Cause harm reduction works & policing doesn’t.
Since cutting harm reduction, deaths are up 50%. Cause harm reduction works & policing doesn’t.
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Your School House Rock moment...🤔
May 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Your School House Rock moment...🤔
We are in strange time-where Narcan is “controversial,” harm reduction is called “enabling,” and forced treatment is somehow evidence-based. Haven’t we already spent 50+ years proving this approach doesn’t work?
May 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We are in strange time-where Narcan is “controversial,” harm reduction is called “enabling,” and forced treatment is somehow evidence-based. Haven’t we already spent 50+ years proving this approach doesn’t work?
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Sweeping staffing reductions and funding takebacks will threaten access to lifesaving substance use disorder care, APHA and partners warn: "These deep cuts leave us deeply concerned about how this vital work can continue." www.lac.org/news/joint-s...
Legal Action Center | Joint Statement Opposing SAMHSA Cuts and Any…
Eighty leading stakeholder groups join together to oppose recent funding and staffing cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admini...
www.lac.org
April 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Sweeping staffing reductions and funding takebacks will threaten access to lifesaving substance use disorder care, APHA and partners warn: "These deep cuts leave us deeply concerned about how this vital work can continue." www.lac.org/news/joint-s...
Most small and capital T "trauma" doesn't lead to PTSD.
In clinical practice we have to be careful how we use the term "trauma"- over generalizations and pathologizing distress can misguide treatment, do more harm than good.
In clinical practice we have to be careful how we use the term "trauma"- over generalizations and pathologizing distress can misguide treatment, do more harm than good.
April 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Most small and capital T "trauma" doesn't lead to PTSD.
In clinical practice we have to be careful how we use the term "trauma"- over generalizations and pathologizing distress can misguide treatment, do more harm than good.
In clinical practice we have to be careful how we use the term "trauma"- over generalizations and pathologizing distress can misguide treatment, do more harm than good.
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My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
April 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
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BECAUSE WE HAVE A VACCINE. AND, UNTIL RECENTLY, ALMOST EVERYONE TOOK IT.
Remarkably, nowhere in the article does the word "vaccine" appear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...
Remarkably, nowhere in the article does the word "vaccine" appear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
BECAUSE WE HAVE A VACCINE. AND, UNTIL RECENTLY, ALMOST EVERYONE TOOK IT.
Remarkably, nowhere in the article does the word "vaccine" appear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...
Remarkably, nowhere in the article does the word "vaccine" appear.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...
Lithium may help in bipolar disorder by improving circadian rhythm flexibility—making the body’s internal clock more adaptable and responsive to change in activity and rest patterns. This happens before changes in mood are notied.
Lithium shifts circadian rhythms early in bipolar disorder and may offer clues to treatment response 🧠💊🕒 www.news-medical.net/news/2025041... #BipolarDisorder #Lithium #CircadianRhythms #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #MoodStabilizer #Sleep #Health #Psychiatry #Biomarker @ebiomedicine.bsky.social
Lithium shifts circadian rhythms early in bipolar disorder and may offer clues to treatment response
A randomized controlled trial shows that lithium treatment in bipolar disorder patients reduces daytime activity, advances its onset time, and increases volatility in circadian rest-activity patterns....
www.news-medical.net
April 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Lithium may help in bipolar disorder by improving circadian rhythm flexibility—making the body’s internal clock more adaptable and responsive to change in activity and rest patterns. This happens before changes in mood are notied.
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Lithium shifts circadian rhythms early in bipolar disorder and may offer clues to treatment response 🧠💊🕒 www.news-medical.net/news/2025041... #BipolarDisorder #Lithium #CircadianRhythms #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #MoodStabilizer #Sleep #Health #Psychiatry #Biomarker @ebiomedicine.bsky.social
Lithium shifts circadian rhythms early in bipolar disorder and may offer clues to treatment response
A randomized controlled trial shows that lithium treatment in bipolar disorder patients reduces daytime activity, advances its onset time, and increases volatility in circadian rest-activity patterns....
www.news-medical.net
April 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Lithium shifts circadian rhythms early in bipolar disorder and may offer clues to treatment response 🧠💊🕒 www.news-medical.net/news/2025041... #BipolarDisorder #Lithium #CircadianRhythms #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #MoodStabilizer #Sleep #Health #Psychiatry #Biomarker @ebiomedicine.bsky.social
Which do you think will happen first?
1- AI replacing physicians
2- AI helping with prior auth
1- AI replacing physicians
2- AI helping with prior auth
April 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Which do you think will happen first?
1- AI replacing physicians
2- AI helping with prior auth
1- AI replacing physicians
2- AI helping with prior auth
"Rather than trying to treat and resolve the biology, we should be focusing on building environments that improve outcomes and mental health" @nytimes.com
Why not both? but understand that restructuring environments often isn’t possible, and not helping patients can lead to irreparable harm. #ADHD
Why not both? but understand that restructuring environments often isn’t possible, and not helping patients can lead to irreparable harm. #ADHD
April 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Rather than trying to treat and resolve the biology, we should be focusing on building environments that improve outcomes and mental health" @nytimes.com
Why not both? but understand that restructuring environments often isn’t possible, and not helping patients can lead to irreparable harm. #ADHD
Why not both? but understand that restructuring environments often isn’t possible, and not helping patients can lead to irreparable harm. #ADHD
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Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.
April 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Perioidic reminder that the reason you didn't see autistic people with intellectual disabilities on the street five decades ago was not because they didn't exist. It's because they were sent away to institutions and their parents were told to put away pictures of them.
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This looks like an important read
Any #overdiagnosis -interested people had a look yet? Thoughts?
#surdisgnostic #p4
#adhd #asd #psychiatry
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-ag...
Any #overdiagnosis -interested people had a look yet? Thoughts?
#surdisgnostic #p4
#adhd #asd #psychiatry
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-ag...
The Age Of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession With Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker Book By Suzanne Osullivan, ('eb') | Indigo
Buy the book The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels is Making Us Sicker by suzanne osullivan at Indigo
www.indigo.ca
March 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This looks like an important read
Any #overdiagnosis -interested people had a look yet? Thoughts?
#surdisgnostic #p4
#adhd #asd #psychiatry
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-ag...
Any #overdiagnosis -interested people had a look yet? Thoughts?
#surdisgnostic #p4
#adhd #asd #psychiatry
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-ag...
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Another Texas bill that has no chance of passing, but its wild what the fringe is putting out there.
Literally makes it "fraud" to be trans.
Literally makes it "fraud" to be trans.
March 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Another Texas bill that has no chance of passing, but its wild what the fringe is putting out there.
Literally makes it "fraud" to be trans.
Literally makes it "fraud" to be trans.
Complete abstinence isn’t the only meaningful outcome in substance use treatment. Even small reductions in use and continued engagement in care save lives.
March 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Complete abstinence isn’t the only meaningful outcome in substance use treatment. Even small reductions in use and continued engagement in care save lives.
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Harm reduction isn’t about nudging people toward abstinence—it’s about rejecting the idea that drug use makes someone disposable in the first place.
March 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Harm reduction isn’t about nudging people toward abstinence—it’s about rejecting the idea that drug use makes someone disposable in the first place.
We can significantly reduce overdose deaths by
- Methadone access via pharmacies
- Expanding opioid agonist treatment options (SROM, hydromorphone)
- Overdose prevention centers
- Accessible harm reduction supplies
- Mobile treatment options in high risk counties
- MAT via Tele-health in rural
- Methadone access via pharmacies
- Expanding opioid agonist treatment options (SROM, hydromorphone)
- Overdose prevention centers
- Accessible harm reduction supplies
- Mobile treatment options in high risk counties
- MAT via Tele-health in rural
February 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
We can significantly reduce overdose deaths by
- Methadone access via pharmacies
- Expanding opioid agonist treatment options (SROM, hydromorphone)
- Overdose prevention centers
- Accessible harm reduction supplies
- Mobile treatment options in high risk counties
- MAT via Tele-health in rural
- Methadone access via pharmacies
- Expanding opioid agonist treatment options (SROM, hydromorphone)
- Overdose prevention centers
- Accessible harm reduction supplies
- Mobile treatment options in high risk counties
- MAT via Tele-health in rural
If we want to encourage more physicians to pursue addiction psychiatry we should create an option to fast track during residency. Vast majority of residents i speak with are interested in a fellowship but cant justify the financial loss especially with medical school debt.
February 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
If we want to encourage more physicians to pursue addiction psychiatry we should create an option to fast track during residency. Vast majority of residents i speak with are interested in a fellowship but cant justify the financial loss especially with medical school debt.
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25 years ago measles was declared eliminated in the United States due to the success of vaccination. In 2024, there were outbreaks in 33 states, 90% of which were in the unvaccinated.
At least 22 children and two adults infected in Texas measles outbreak
Nine of those infected were hospitalized and more cases are likely, health authorities said. U.S. vaccination rates for measles are falling, according to the CDC.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
25 years ago measles was declared eliminated in the United States due to the success of vaccination. In 2024, there were outbreaks in 33 states, 90% of which were in the unvaccinated.
This entire “anti” movement is ramping up efforts to deny depression, psychosis, dysphoria, and other mental health conditions as real disorders—while slashing mental health disability benefits and SNAP. Unfortunately the most vulnerable will pay the price.
February 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This entire “anti” movement is ramping up efforts to deny depression, psychosis, dysphoria, and other mental health conditions as real disorders—while slashing mental health disability benefits and SNAP. Unfortunately the most vulnerable will pay the price.
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Semaglutide (Ozempic) lowered drinking in 1st RCT of a GLP1 in addiciton.
> Phase II trial, 48 patients with #alcohol use d/o
> Tested in a lab setting
> Dose low (0.25-1 mg/wk), duration = 9 wk
> Nicotine also improved
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39937469
> Phase II trial, 48 patients with #alcohol use d/o
> Tested in a lab setting
> Dose low (0.25-1 mg/wk), duration = 9 wk
> Nicotine also improved
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39937469
February 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Semaglutide (Ozempic) lowered drinking in 1st RCT of a GLP1 in addiciton.
> Phase II trial, 48 patients with #alcohol use d/o
> Tested in a lab setting
> Dose low (0.25-1 mg/wk), duration = 9 wk
> Nicotine also improved
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39937469
> Phase II trial, 48 patients with #alcohol use d/o
> Tested in a lab setting
> Dose low (0.25-1 mg/wk), duration = 9 wk
> Nicotine also improved
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39937469
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'anxiety levels in the CBD arm were significantly lower 2 to 4 hours after ingestion'
#cbd #cannabis #cannabinoids
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#cbd #cannabis #cannabinoids
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cannabidiol for Scan-Related Anxiety in Women With Advanced Breast Cancer
This randomized clinical trial investigates whether a single oral dose of cannabidiol improves scan-related anxiety in women with advanced breast cancer.
jamanetwork.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
'anxiety levels in the CBD arm were significantly lower 2 to 4 hours after ingestion'
#cbd #cannabis #cannabinoids
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#cbd #cannabis #cannabinoids
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Medical misinformation on social media has gone from bad to worse—now it’s just dangerous. Anyone can pose as a “skeptic” of evidence-based medicine to push their own supplements.
February 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Medical misinformation on social media has gone from bad to worse—now it’s just dangerous. Anyone can pose as a “skeptic” of evidence-based medicine to push their own supplements.
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If you don’t like drug use in public then I assume you’re doing everything you can for designated consumption centers? Or are you just a big hypocrite
It’s totally normal to not want to cede our public spaces to drug addicts smoking, shooting up and having full blown psychotic episodes. My pocket has enough nickels, I’m just tired of shit and needles on my doorstep from people who refuse help at every turn.
February 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
If you don’t like drug use in public then I assume you’re doing everything you can for designated consumption centers? Or are you just a big hypocrite
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ADHD reduces life expectancy by 7-9 years - new study #ADHD #Autism #Psychiatry #PsychSciSky #Psychotherapy
ADHD Reduces Life Expectancy by 7 to 9 Years: New Study
The life expectancy for a woman with ADHD is 8.6 years shorter than it is for her neurotypical peers, a slightly larger gap than the 6.8-year difference for men, according to a groundbreaking new U.K....
www.additudemag.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
ADHD reduces life expectancy by 7-9 years - new study #ADHD #Autism #Psychiatry #PsychSciSky #Psychotherapy