Andrew Kolodny

Medical Director, Opioid Policy Research, Heller School, Brandeis University. Co-Founder of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing

[Rise Above with Kevin @RiseAboveWithK]

Kratom is a hard drug. Period.

[Andrew Kolodny @andrewkolodny]

Thanks to SCOTUS, the Purdue bankruptcy plan is gone. Good riddance! It was a lousy deal & not just because of releases for the Sacklers and co-conspirators. There were other elements that were even more onerous.

[Industry Documents Library @industrydocs]

@andrewkolodny mentioned Richard Sackler’s 2001 email saying “We have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible” (an effort to blame the #opioid crisis on "addicts and illegal drug dealers”). See the email here: https://t.co/7dYHs3FLDQ

[Industry Documents Library @industrydocs]

Interesting @Pharmed_Out podcast on the #opioid crisis with guest @andrewkolodny discussing industry marketing strategies like promoting pseudoaddiction https://t.co/cjhQm7MwQQ

[STAT @statnews]

Endo "was one of the worst actors in the opioid crisis" said @andrewkolodny of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative at Brandeis University. https://t.co/GedDdZ9b9x

[Andrew Kolodny @andrewkolodny]

5/ And so the company pleads guilty and pays a fine (that will probably amount to less than it earned off its opioids (which includes Percocet) but no executives are held accountable for actions that contributed to thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of cases of addiction.

[Andrew Kolodny @andrewkolodny]

1/ Endo, the company that made Opana (oxymorphone), was just ordered to Pay $1.5 billion in criminal fines and forfeiture. The company also pled guilty to falsely promoting Opana ER as abuse deterrent. But that was the least of their bad actions.

[Andrew Kolodny @andrewkolodny]

4/ The American Pain Foundation, one of the most influential pain patient front groups received the bulk of its funding from Endo. See https://t.co/10qv1qcJvM by @charlesornstein

[Andrew Kolodny @andrewkolodny]

Sad news. What a huge loss. Sidney Wolfe, relentless consumer activist and FDA foe, dies at 86 https://t.co/M3by0IfDtO

[Andrew Kolodny @andrewkolodny]

Ketamine is related to PCP. It is NOT similar to psilocybin, LSD & other psychedelics. It's a good drug used in medical settings for anesthesia but the increasing use for depression & other conditions is based on weak evidence and is cause for concern.

[Andrew Kolodny @andrewkolodny]

Ketamine is NOT a psychedelic. It is a dissociative anesthetic. And it can be addictive. I've treated patients with ketamine use disorder, including a patient with injection use.

[Ed Bisch @ejb1893]

12/4 STAND wit NAN 💥. ⁦@crazynangoldin⁩ ⁦@sacklerpain⁩ #Dopesick #Painkiller #PurduePharma #oxycontin #SacklerCartel

[Andrew Kolodny @andrewkolodny]

Opioids don't relieve acute low back or neck pain – and can result in worse pain, new study finds https://t.co/pSOA1oq8e0 via @ConversationEDU

[Itai Bavli, PhD @ibavli]

Families and friends from my kibbutz and nearby communities who have lost their loved ones or have relatives kidnapped by Hamas (including my family) are experiencing severe trauma, especially families with young children.

We can help them. Please share https://t.co/7ts1gjZl8h

[Ed Bisch @ejb1893]

A Brief History of Opioids in the U.S. https://t.co/BYLApgxdLt @andrewkolodny @industrydocs

[Andrew Kolodny @andrewkolodny]

@JonGard1 Are you referring to state-imposed MME caps? If so, which states?

[Andrew Kolodny @andrewkolodny]

Biden’s efforts to address fentanyl with interdiction & international collaboration and harm reduction are needed and welcome. But for a real drop in OD deaths, MOUD needs to be free and available. Interdiction & naloxone will only get us so far.
https://t.co/nZKjUknlm7

[Andrew Kolodny @andrewkolodny]

@dbergstresser Thank you Daniel for the kind words and support!

[Daniel Bergstresser @dbergstresser]

I admire my Brandeis colleague @andrewkolodny. He has been active for years raising the alarm about the over-use of opioids. Yesterday the importance of his work was backhand-acknowledged via a very specific protest against him from a group of “pain patient activists”.