Katrina Ciraldo, MD

harm reductionist family doctor, addiction specialist; AIDS activists taught me all the important things I know; fan of warm weather 🌞she/her/hers

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

“Look, the crime is most rampant right here and in African American communities,” Trump said at 180 Church in Detroit. “More people see me and they say, ‘Sir, we want protection. We want police to protect us. We don’t want to get robbed and mugged and beat up or killed because we want to walk across the street to buy a loaf of bread.’”

The most dangerous racist idea is the notion that Black communities are dangerous. It endangers Black people when politicians express this racist idea. It protects Black people when politicians express that levels of poverty, unemployment, and guns better explain levels of violence than a community’s racial makeup.

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[Dorothy Roberts @DorothyERoberts]

The death penalty always has been and always will be an abomination. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

[Innocence Project @innocence]

On this day 80 years ago, a Black 14-year-old boy named George Stinney Jr. was executed by the state of South Carolina for a crime he didn't commit. He was the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century, and was exonerated 70 years after his death.⁠

[Katrina Ciraldo, MD @kjc2106]

@serotavirus @reprievetrial @HIVMA I say "your risk of heart attack or stroke in the next ten years is 20% and it's recommended to take a medicine to lower your risk if it's 10%. how would you feel about starting a medicine (+/or quitting smoking, +/or exercising) to lower your risk of heart attack or stroke?"

[Scott Hadland, MD @DrScottHadland]

We're failing teens & families in addiction treatment. 🚨 In our new study (out moments ago) in @JAMA_current, we phoned opioid addiction treatment progs for teens across the US.

Fewer than 1 in 4 actually offered standard-of-care treatment. Brief 🧵 1/ https://t.co/7UicvKkdgb

[Chioma Moneme, MD MBA @ChiomaMoneme]

There is no amount of self-care or wellness that can fix a broken system.
How many more residents have to suffer?

Dr Nakita Mortimer may you rest in power and finally find peace🕊️

[Katrina Ciraldo, MD @kjc2106]

@AyeshaAppaMD @UCSF_HIVIDGM Yay!

[The People's Medicines Alliance @peoplesmeds]

“It is mind blowing to me that the production of medicines is treated as a money making initiative instead of a life saving initiative”

Our policy Co-lead, @kosgeikamau, at the @GlobalJusticeUK conference on Resisting Monopoly Capitalism.

[NIDAnews @NIDAnews]

🆕 study in Annals of Medicine @tandfonline suggests that a syringe service program may be an acceptable & feasible venue for delivery of Tele- #HarmReduction to ⬆️uptake of buprenorphine by ppl who inject drugs & promote retention in care. @umiamimedicine https://t.co/PEKZZkoXcW

[Katrina Ciraldo, MD @kjc2106]

@ShawnCohen_MD I had a patient transfer from Florida to another state in the south where they told the patient the state’s max dose is 120 so they wanted to do an automatic drop from 150 to 120. The patient and I were both flabbergasted and I tried to call to speak w a provider, no luck

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but please stop cutting clothes and underwear off totally stable trauma patients

[Wendy Hasson MD @WendyHassonMD]

A message from a hospital pastor:

May I humbly request not to call #DamarHamlin’s recovery a "miracle”?
It wasn't a miracle. He had a sudden cardiac arrest with a shockable rhythm, received enough oxygen to his brain to preserve it through CPR, and was shocked back into rhythm.

[Katrina Ciraldo, MD @kjc2106]

@NanouTheNomad @CarolynAChan @PaulNWilliamz @StefanKertesz @DrMelissaWeimer @tdbrothers @DrSarahWakeman @DrSarahAxelrath @dorazepam Still not the norm, change is hard

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

Sobering new data from the last few years showing the U.S. maternal mortality rate continues to exceed that of other high-income countries.

This horrifyingly high rate is driven especially by the deaths of Black birthing people.

[Carl Hart @drcarlhart]

Day 282 #BrittneyGriner languishes in prison for the crime of wanting to alter her consciousness, period.
#RepealGlobalDrugProhibition

[Katrina Ciraldo, MD @kjc2106]

@NanouTheNomad Digesting all the notes is not as fun as all the pasta 🍝 and cannolis

[Soraya Azari, MD @azarimugs]

“We’ve built a system to cage them. Let’s try to build a system to care for them” -@Kassandra_Fred

[Katrina Ciraldo, MD @kjc2106]

@KathrynNowotny @_Eric_Reinhart @JAMANetworkOpen Seriously?

[Lipi Roy, MD, MPH, FASAM @lipiroy]

"You can't beat up on someone then try to help them." -@RNBluthenthal @KeckMedUSC 2022 McGovern Award recipient on respecting people who use drugs, people of color, people w HIV

#AMERSA2022 @AMERSA_tweets #needleexhange #harmreduction

[Faith Crittenden, MD MPH @FaithCrittenden]

Do not give a child with asthma cough syrup.

Do not give a child with asthma cough syrup.

Do not give a child with asthma cough syrup.

Do not give a child with asthma cough syrup.