Steven Powell

Physician,husband and father. Special interest in promoting humane, rational treatment of addiction. Loves music and politics.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Vaccines do not cause autism

Vaccine doses are nowhere close to “the size of a bottle of soda,” they’re a fraction of a teaspoon

The combo MMR vaccine is not “quite lethal,” it’s been very safe for more than five decades

There are no separate M/M/R shots available in the US and won’t be anytime soon 

Autism prevalence wasn’t “1 in 10,000” in 2006, it was 1 in 110

No state has been requiring little kids to get “72 jabs,” nor even by age 18

Fact check on the rapid-fire vaccine misinformation President Trump delivered yesterday while pushing to change US vaccine policy: https://t.co/qSF53N8XJW

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

@cushac Was hoping and wondering if you all would consider Red Red Meat's "Jimmywine Majestic" and Pond's "The Practice of Joy Before Death". Two fantastic mid-90s albums. Would be welcome in Pitchfork's Sunday reviews. Thanks for these weekly explorations!

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

@cushac I drove from Chicago in 1996 (?) to Bloomington IN with a friend to watch his band Snacktime open for a triple bill with Thinking Feller and opener Red Red Meat. I thought they were great! Went out and thanked them as they were loading out. Could not have been more gracious!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Only you need to know who you vote for. Just ask Melania.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Holy shit you guys, this video!
Share this far and wide.
We are not going back!!!

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

I'm attending Progressive Victory's event, “White Dudes for Harris Organizing Calls” - sign up now to join me! #progressivevictory https://t.co/lGAmA4KqV1

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

I took action with TDP Voter Protection. Will you join me? Volunteer to staff a voter hotline in Texas! Use this link to sign up: https://t.co/jW3h1qISjy

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Modern Elections Texas . Sign here: https://t.co/4B2OCyXYEM

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

@JoeBiden Bless you, President Biden. I am sure you had a lot more fight in you, but comes a time every fighter has to hang up the gloves. Watching you debate Paul Ryan in 2012 was glorious. That's the Biden I'll remember always!

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

Join @eji_org to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality https://t.co/5BaUI5UzJi

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

Can't get @SamsungUS to respond to my messages regarding an unsolved TV issue. Tech came today, looked at the TV, talked on his phone to support and left with the instructions to not use a Roku. Not very satisfied with this solution.
@SamsungUS

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

@chitchatstocks 🥲Grinning like an idiot and crying because I'll miss him and his humor!

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

It's National Addiction Treatment Week

[TreatmentWeek @TreatmentWeek]

Welcome to National Addiction #TreatmentWeek 2023! We're so excited to kick off the week with a message from our friend and champion of this year's Treatment Week, @LaurenSisler! https://t.co/sraUZCvCKc

#NATW #NationalAddictionTreatmentWeek #TreatAddictionSaveLives

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

@mmpadellan What a collective! Anybody know the song?

[Jake Flores 🇵🇸🇲🇽 @feraljokes]

Isn't it kind of ironic this just ended up turning into a gay pride flag

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

@emilynussbaum Begin Again with Kiera Knightley and Mark Ruffalo: very, very good!

[Marty Taylor @marty_taylorr]

In 1984. Recent law school grad Greg Abbott was jogging in the affluent Houston, Texas suburb of River Oaks. When he jogged past Divorce attorney Roy Moore's home. A giant oak tree broke and tragically fell on Greg Abbott. Crushing his spine and leaving him paralyzed. Uninsured and unemployed. Abbott had no health insurance. He had over $81,000 in hospital bills. He sued. Abbott got his hospital bills paid and received over $5.7 million dollars in payouts from Moore's home insurance and the tree services company who failed to detect the tree was rotten inside. Still to this day Greg Abbott gets a monthly check that includes cost of living increases each year. And will receive a check for the rest of his life. When Abbott was on the Texas Supreme court . He voted to decrease the amount of money someone in a similar situation could receive. Gregg Abbott supported capping non medical damages in cases like his at $250,000. A reward like the multi million dollars in payouts Abbott received and still receives each and every month till the day he dies would be impossible today. Of course these bills were crafted to not be retroactive. So they do not affect Greg Abbotts payments. Gregg Abbott does everything he can to hurt us Texans. While he laughs all the way to the bank every month with his very generous monthly check that he happily denies to another Texan who is injured in the same way as Abbott was. It goes without saying. This is another example of a GOP hypocrite. OK for me but not for any other Texan. That should be Gov. Greg Abbotts theme song for his life. What a despicable man who cares nothing about anyone's pain and suffering. He got his and to Abbot and the GOP. That's all that matters. @NewBlueUSA #DemVoice1

[Steven Powell @StevenPowellMD]

@alcioneDeTauri @integerpoet @eleanorkpenny What was it? The Tweet was deleted! Argh

[Muhammad Aadil, MD @m_aadil]

Methadone is the only medication for which one must travel for miles every day, stand in line, give a urine sample in front of staff, and swallow the medication while being monitored.

There's simply no evidence to justify these strict conditions when the alternative is a potentially fatal overdose. Its stigmatizing, inhumane and shows the prejudice towards people with substance disorder.