Alex Woodruff

Manager Operational Performance. Writes on health policy and addiction. BMC | BU SPH. Plant grower 🌱 beer brewer 🍺 Bills Mafia

[Grayken Center for Addiction @GraykenBMC]

#Mentorship opportunity alert: Applications for @AMERSA_tweets' Growing a #DiverseWorkforce Award are open to anyone early in their #addiction career or education who identifies as a member of a historically excluded group. Apply or share today!

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[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

Welp, I lost this bet pretty hard

[Mary Woodruff (Tomanovich) @MaryTomanovich]

oh boy, not a collie mix. we have our work cut out for us.

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

In this dog training video we will show you how to get a professionally trained dog to act like a professionally trained dog.

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@MaryTomanovich Almost always, the exception was if that person "self-committed" and for some reason still needed to appear in court. but attorneys struggled to defend cases. The prep time was in the order of minutes and I never saw a case successfully defended.

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@GoldfarbDeb @GraykenBMC Strong agree. The study I was apart of had to move mountains to operate. Sec 35 data, including court records, should be deidentified and available to researchers to study #addictionchat

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@GraykenBMC A3: There are too many to count. Is it exists, the arrest and court process can be disastrous and archeic remnant of the criminalization of drug use. Support structures disintegrate, people relive trauma, all in the hope of effective SUD treatment. #addictionchat

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@GraykenBMC Evidence in nearly non-existent. We do a lot of tea reading from carceral studies, and other countries systems. That is not the standard I am comfortable with in "evidence-based" treatment #addictionchat

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@AliciaSVentura @GraykenBMC Thats true, and the justification for the forensic psych, and MD that performs pre-court evaluations. But overall I agree with you that I don't believe they are qualified as I would consider an addiction specialized MD is qualified.

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@GraykenBMC A0: Hi all! I'm a manager of operational performance at BMC. I worked inside sec 35 facilities interviewing ppl about their experiences for research purposes and observed CC court cases. I am an advocate for Sec 35 reform. #addiction chat

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@CityOfBoston, your decision to pile 7 feet if snow and ice at the end of my driveway cannot break me (though it can break a shovel). Better luck next year.

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

I'm really proud to say that I've accepted a position at Boston Medical Center! Im looking forward to joining an exciting organization and returning to mass and cass, where I started my career. @The_BMC

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@GraykenBMC As we've seen in boston, generating housing supports is as much a political problem as anything else. Right now, advocacy can make a big difference in shifting the overton window to facilitate change. #addictionchat

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@BTConcannon @MaryTomanovich @AvikChatterMD @1remy_lawrence @GraykenBMC I'll take "important advocacy initiatives" for 500. #addictionchat

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@AvikChatterMD @1remy_lawrence @GraykenBMC Agree with Mary, IDK if it is protected. I know secret shoppers exist in the housing market for disability and racial bias, but I've never heard of such a thing being done for SUD.

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@MaryTomanovich @GraykenBMC And affordability! - the last stat I saw on maintaining IVDU was average $1500/m. I couldn't afford Boston housing while saddled with that magnitude of financial burden. #addictionchat

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

Retweeting with an article I wrote recently that described this pathway. #addictionchat @GraykenBMC https://t.co/rYl7RETTfu

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

@GraykenBMC SUD has huge financial and societal burdens that can drive homelessness. Not only are patients with SUD financially strained by their illness, they are also often kicked out of housing due to abstinence-only policy or "teach them a lesson" mentalities. #addictionchat

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

New article! - highlighting the differences in risk behaviors among men and women who inject drugs. Thanks @BreBiondi for your stellar research on this important topic!

[Incidental Economist @IncidentalEcon]

Risk Behaviors Among Men and Women Who Inject Drugs, by @aewoodru - https://t.co/f0mqfOdtbG
cc @BreBiondi, @mdsteinmd, @BUSPH_HLPM

[Alex Woodruff @aewoodru]

I did not know Paul well — but I will miss him. He was a boisterous advocate for people in recovery and a champion for people with addiction. May we all live with the courage that he did.

[Paul Edward Bowman @Bostonnama]

@Boston_Mackin @DrSarahWakeman @AvikChatterMD @aewoodru @JessicaTaylorMD @JessTilley7 @JessieGaeta @DrKimSue https://t.co/QtC9PAP1Kn we just need to get OTPs to implement this back to Covid takehomes