📷.We did some life table modelling among people who use heroin. Tobacco smoking causes as many premature deaths in this group as illegal drugs. Yet public health policies overlook smoking: New research with @Sharon_ACox and @TattanBirch

Authors include @pwidpride, @tdbrothers, @VivProf, and others who probably already left Twitter.

(5) My favourite find was the article "Treatment of hospitalized narcotic addicts" from the Illinois Medical Journal, 1970. This deserves an essay of its own.

(4) There is little published research into approaches that might improve continuity of OAT for patients who already have community-based prescriptions. This is the more common scenario in the UK where many people who use opioids already have methadone prescriptions.

(3) Most research is driven by a desire use hospital visits as an opportunity to engage people who do not currently have OAT. Therefore bridge prescriptions and referrals to community services are often key elements of the interventions.

(2) We identified three models: (a) initiation of buprenorphine in ED; (b) addiction consult teams; (c) building capacity and systems across hospital departments to improve availability of OAT (iHOST is in this last group).

(1) We found 57 studies and they were mostly recent (51 published in 2015 or later) and from North America.

We've just published a scoping review of projects that aim to improve opioid agonist therapy (eg. methadone) in acute hospital settings: This This is part of our excellent iHOST project (. A couple of findings . .

RT @mrc_ieu: @bmj_latest If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Before you stock up on dark chocolate read this response from @me….

Please do find me at @danlewer.bsky.social.

Inflation is usually measured the change in prices compared to one year previously. Therefore, a reducing but still positive inflation figure often means REDUCING pricing month-on-month. A positive inflation figures does not always mean prices are going up.

Let's talk about the "5%" model. You just can't contribute meaningfully to a research project with 5% of your time. If you have 20 parallel projects, you literally just go to meetings and do nothing.

RT @zheer_kejlberg: @danlewer it is a dark and twisted tongue, made as a mockery to all that is beautiful.

RT @carlislerainey: @noah_greifer Regular reminder that we almost had the meat axe.

We're recruiting a senior research fellow (£43,742 to £50,056) to join Bradford Centre for Health Data Science - the leading centre for applied epidemiology and quantitative health research in the north of England -

@TheLancet what do you do when anarchic authors submit manuscripts without using the interpunct?.

Submit your Lancet articles with standard decimal points. Resist the interpunct #smashthesystem

In principle I'm fine with students and job applicants using chatGPT to help them. But I can't bear to read any more of the utter rubbish it generates. I find the gramatically correct nonsense lists particularly infuriating.

RT @DrSarahEJackson: New paper explores patterns and perceptions of vaping among adults living in social housing🏠. Despite higher vaping ra….

For a cast iron improvement to your health, simply take part in a health survey 10 years in the future.