Michael Ostacher, MD, MPH, MMSc
@recoverydoctor.bsky.social
Professor of Psychiatry & Beh Sciences @StanfordMed decreasing stigma/increasing evidence/improving care. Food tweets. Digital Ed @BMJMentalHealth @RecoveryDoctor on Twitter. Opinions mine.
So keep an account on Twitter too?
June 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So keep an account on Twitter too?
I didn’t think I’d encounter anti-immigrant rhetoric on this app but here we are.
June 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I didn’t think I’d encounter anti-immigrant rhetoric on this app but here we are.
@nextdoorsv.bsky.social where were you? x.com/the_transit_...
Hayden on X: "Homeowners in Menlo Park are so opposed to building affordable housing on a downtown surface parking lot that they have raised $150k and filed a petition requiring a citywide vote anytime a parking lot is to be developed. The city hasn't approved an apartment in 32 months. https://t.co/gRFStHMeq3" / X
Homeowners in Menlo Park are so opposed to building affordable housing on a downtown surface parking lot that they have raised $150k and filed a petition requiring a citywide vote anytime a parking lot is to be developed. The city hasn't approved an apartment in 32 months. https://t.co/gRFStHMeq3
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June 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
@nextdoorsv.bsky.social where were you? x.com/the_transit_...
@nextdoorsv.bsky.social Were you at this NIMBY event? Save the parking lots! www.almanacnews.com/menlo-park/2...
Menlo Park businesses raise $130,000 to fight downtown development
A group of residents and businesses is raising money to oppose Menlo Park’s proposed affordable housing developments on downtown parking lots. The group, Save Downtown Menlo, launched a GoFundMe that ...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:05 AM
@nextdoorsv.bsky.social Were you at this NIMBY event? Save the parking lots! www.almanacnews.com/menlo-park/2...
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many thanks to @davidtzall.bsky.social and @recoverydoctor.bsky.social for chatting with me in this week’s newsletter!
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The Myth of the Gateway Drug
Spoiler alert: Those D.A.R.E. officers didn't know what they were talking about.
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March 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
many thanks to @davidtzall.bsky.social and @recoverydoctor.bsky.social for chatting with me in this week’s newsletter!
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Reposted by Michael Ostacher, MD, MPH, MMSc
I'm interviewed in this, discussing why work farms aren't a great new idea to solve addiction & why personal experience alone isn't policy expertise www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...
RFK Jr. says he'll fix the overdose crisis. Critics say his plan is risky
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. survived heroin addiction and says that if confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, he'll build treatment "farms" to help people recover.
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January 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I'm interviewed in this, discussing why work farms aren't a great new idea to solve addiction & why personal experience alone isn't policy expertise www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...
Reposted by Michael Ostacher, MD, MPH, MMSc
Looking for a #postdoc in a multimodal #neuropsych lab studying novel #PTSD interventions & #stress biomarkers? My lab @emoryuniversity.bsky.social is hiring! Supported by #NIMH, #NCCIH #R01s. My team is creative, passionate, & delightfully quirky--join us.
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Careers | Emory University | Atlanta GA
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January 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Looking for a #postdoc in a multimodal #neuropsych lab studying novel #PTSD interventions & #stress biomarkers? My lab @emoryuniversity.bsky.social is hiring! Supported by #NIMH, #NCCIH #R01s. My team is creative, passionate, & delightfully quirky--join us.
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Lunch at the desk. Canned soup gussied up with roasted vegetables, 3 hot sauces, and the requisite saltines. #blueskysupperclub
January 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Lunch at the desk. Canned soup gussied up with roasted vegetables, 3 hot sauces, and the requisite saltines. #blueskysupperclub
TIL there is such a thing as #blueskysupperclub. Thank you, Andrew. I haven’t been here for 18 days but maybe I won’t wait so long this time.
January 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
TIL there is such a thing as #blueskysupperclub. Thank you, Andrew. I haven’t been here for 18 days but maybe I won’t wait so long this time.
Is this app really the place to move to when so many followers are like this? Bot-city over here.
December 25, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Is this app really the place to move to when so many followers are like this? Bot-city over here.
Reposted by Michael Ostacher, MD, MPH, MMSc
The Utah Program to Provide Pain Research Knowledge (#UP3RK) T90/R90 is accepting applications of postgraduate training to address #pain and #addiction. Wanna evolve into an independent #NIDA researcher? It’s your ticket. medicine.utah.edu/internal-med...
UP3RK
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November 18, 2024 at 3:10 AM
The Utah Program to Provide Pain Research Knowledge (#UP3RK) T90/R90 is accepting applications of postgraduate training to address #pain and #addiction. Wanna evolve into an independent #NIDA researcher? It’s your ticket. medicine.utah.edu/internal-med...
Are we gonna have to pay for this site too?
September 18, 2023 at 9:13 PM
Are we gonna have to pay for this site too?
Nice paper by @awaisaftab.bsky.social
My new paper in AMA Journal of Ethics examines conceptual uncertainties around palliative psychopharmacology, and offers an account of palliative psychopharmacology by focusing on modifiable and unmodifiable aspects of a condition.
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What Should Clinicians Know About Palliative Psychopharmacology?
This article examines conceptual limitations of extant accounts of palliative psychiatry, with a focus on obligations to distinguish among and clearly formulate goals of care.
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September 1, 2023 at 8:55 PM
Nice paper by @awaisaftab.bsky.social
Amazing to teach the brand new and brave Addiction Medicine fellows @StanfordMed and to get some bagels from the incomparable @boichikbagels. Thanks Steven Tate for the bite. #twittersupperclub (Is this even here???)
July 8, 2023 at 5:06 AM
Amazing to teach the brand new and brave Addiction Medicine fellows @StanfordMed and to get some bagels from the incomparable @boichikbagels. Thanks Steven Tate for the bite. #twittersupperclub (Is this even here???)
I should probably post my first whatever this is called over here with this self portrait.
July 3, 2023 at 7:04 AM
I should probably post my first whatever this is called over here with this self portrait.