@pcoffin

ID & addiction physician and investigator, dad, and amateur kiteboarder

Joined February 2009
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My shop - Center on Substance Use & Health - is seeking a candidate to run studies. The current one is an exciting trial of 2 injectable medications for cocaine use disorder. Please spread the word and find out more through: csuhsf.org/careers
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We have to stop abandoning patients, just because they have been receiving opioids. nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…

Inherited Patients Taking Opioids for Chronic Pain — Considerations for Primary Care | NEJM

Patients who have taken opioids for years for chronic pain must be treated differently from those who have not because such therapies cause profound physiological and neurologic changes. Reflexive ...

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We are hiring! Need a fabulous person to run two exciting new studies addressing stimulant use and overdose death. csuhsf.org/careers

Careers | CSUH SF

Are you interested in joining a research team that's helping improve the lives of marginalized communities? The Center on Substance Use and Health might be the right place for you!

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Looking for substance use research work? Join a fantastic team in San Francisco! csuhsf.org/careers

Careers | CSUH SF

Are you interested in joining a research team that's helping improve the lives of marginalized communities? The Center on Substance Use and Health might be the right place for you!

csuhsf.org
Rebecca Martinez on stopping opioid therapy. csuhsf.org/post/discontinuin…

Discontinuing Prescription Opioids for Patients with Chronic Pain: Do Risks Outweigh Benefits?

By Rebecca Martinez, RN, MS, FNP-CHow do we support people living with chronic, non-cancer pain to lead healthy, happy, harm-free lives? This question stumps many clinicians and researchers, as...

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Be thoughtful and cautious when changing opioid prescriptions. Cutting people off can lead to more illicit opioid use (as might escalating the dose) journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Illicit opioid use following changes in opioids prescribed for chronic non-cancer pain

Background After decades of increased opioid pain reliever prescribing, providers are rapidly reducing prescribing. We hypothesized that reduced access to prescribed opioid pain relievers among...

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Getting Overdose Antidote With Painkillers May Cut ER Visits nyti.ms/293FqMg
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US Drug Policy NARA@ONDCP442 Jan 2013
New research confirms that opioid #overdose reversal drug, naloxone, saves lives. Read more from @TIMEHealthland: goo.gl/qYi66
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Remember those lost and saved overdoseday.com/events/
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NYTimes: No ‘Moby-Dick’: A Real Captain, Twice Doomed http://nyti.ms/feiXU4
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