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I know it’s par for the course but legacy newspapers - here the @washingtonpost.com - laundering Kennedy’s craziness and dangerousness is gross & so blatant.

Mealy mouthed response from CT Republicans (Sens Harding & Somers) trying to have it both ways. The D's are right here - if HHS & Trump follows through on this it's means deferred care that for people who end up in the ED & risk that FQHC's go under have to close.
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Not sure where’d they play in New Haven. Probably need to actually build something but where? At Sports Haven site perhaps? Bridgeport might even be a better fit…

Also, receiving a benzodiazepine after surviving an overdose increased your risk of a subsequent fatal overdose. This continue to highlight the role that BZDs have in the ongoing overdose crisis & that we should be careful about reviewing *all* medications after someone survives an overdose.

An additional finding was that Inpatient rehab and detox were *not* associated with a decrease in risk compared to receiving no treatment at all. We shouldn't offer (or support via policy) these treatment modalities in lieu of or in absence of supporting opioid agonists.

This finding is consistent with similar findings from other states and with clinical trial data. Opioid agonist treatments work to prevent overdose even in the fentanyl era - but only 1 in 3 overdose survivors access them.

📣New publication!📣 We studied what happened to overdose survivors in Connecticut using data linked across multiple sources. People who access methadone or buprenorphine were less likely to have another overdose compared to no treatment.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Variation in jail exposures are associated w higher risk of death. Great work by med student Dylan Balter presenting our work at SGIM looking at people released from jail in Minnesota! @seicheyale.bsky.social

This protest sign hits hard. From #NewHaven #AveloBoycott protest www.newhavenindependent.org/article/twee...

Lamont more likely to steal from opioid settlement funds than use budget surpluses on hand to fund needed social services.

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In full disclosure, this piece cites research co-authored. This paragraph is quoting this research which we conducted using linked data here in Connecticut. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another great resource from @kff.org in collaboration with Shatterproof & @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social to track use of Opioid Settlement Funds. Notable that CT (unlike our neighbors CT & NY) is *not* getting money out the door. Hopefully we can work on improving the efficiency of our process.

Our commentary highlights that *potential* is the operative word. Real barriers exist to broadly providing naloxone in jail. Jails are characterized by churn and very heterogenous. Also, we shouldn't keep our eye of the ball of providing MOUD & upstream interventions! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Connecticut, much like other states, continues to see a drop in overdose deaths year-over-year; This is very good news (though they remain far too high) but I'd be lying if I could tell you *why* we're seeing this drop. drive.google.com/file/d/1kkBc...