Congrats to Liz, UConn medical student and CHEARR trainee, on winning the Certificate of Excellence at the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians Scientific Symposium for her research on patient-centered perspectives on treatment success for people who take medications for opioid use disorder 🌟

CHEARR post-doctoral fellow, Bridget, presents her project 'Functional Impairment in Daily Living during Long-Term Remission from Substance Use Disorders' at UConn Health's post-doc research day!

CHEARR and JEAP Investigators are guest editing a special issue of Emerging Adulthood on recovery from substance use disorders. Submit your manuscripts by 3/1/26. Details: https://tinyurl.com/msx3r5rv

📆 Mark your calendars! The JEAP Initiative and the Collaborative Hub for Emerging Adult Recovery Research (CHEARR) are co-sponsoring a free 90-minute interactive virtual forum on February 18th focused on recovery capital. Learn more and register: www.jeapinitiative.org/ea-recovery-...

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Sharon A. Johnson! Learn more about Dr. Johnson: www.wpi.edu/people/facul... #MeetTheFaculty #ImplementationScience #HealthSystemsEngineering #EmergencyMedicine #ClinicalDecisionSupport #CAPES #WPI

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Feifan Liu! Learn more about Dr. Liu: profiles.umassmed.edu/display/1550... #MeetTheFaculty #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #HealthInformatics #ClinicalDecisionSupport #SuicidePrevention #CAPES

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Jung Ae Lee! Learn more about Dr. Lee: profiles.umassmed.edu/display/2726... #MeetTheFaculty #Biostatistics #ImplementationScience #HealthData #ClinicalResearch #CAPES #UMassChan

On today's CAPES Meet the Faculty, we introduce Dr. Martin Reznek! Learn more about Dr. Reznek: profiles.umassmed.edu/display/130147 #MeetTheFaculty #EmergencyMedicine #MedicalEducation #ImplementationScience #QualityImprovement #ClinicalLeadership #CAPES #UMassChan

📣 1 month away! Join CAPES for a virtual webinar on Suicide Prevention Implementation Across Diverse Healthcare Settings using the ECHO Model, featuring lessons from AFSP and AAP. 🗓 Feb 18 | 2–3 PM ET | Zoom 🔗 Register: arcsapps.umassmed.edu/redcap/surve...

AI chatbots & wellness apps are increasingly used for mental health—but they’re not a substitute for evidence-based care. The American Psychological Association released a new Health Advisory outlining risks, limits & safeguards clinicians and consumers should know. 🔗 www.apa.org/topics/artif...

CAPES Event Alert! Hosted by the DanCE and EDU Units Suicide Prevention Implementation Across Diverse Healthcare Settings Using the ECHO Model: Lessons from the American Foundation on Suicide Prevention and American Academy of Pediatrics Register: arcsapps.umassmed.edu/redcap/surve...

🎥 Recordings from the CAPES Innovation Summit are now available! Organized with support from EDC, the Summit explored how the Zero Suicide Framework advances CAPES technologies and evidence-based suicide care, featuring talks by Dr. Boudreaux, Dr. Angerhofer, Dr. Michael & T’Leah McQuade.

📰 The latest CAPES Quarterly Newsletter is out! Catch up on events, faculty highlights, and innovations in suicide prevention. 📬 Subscribe: lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/1fDUcne/s... ✨ Read more: umassmed.edu/capes/news/ #CAPES #SuicidePrevention #ResearchInnovation

🧠 CAPES Director Dr. Edwin Boudreaux discusses suicide risk among older men in Science for Living. “We have effective treatments and prevention strategies… There’s hope.” 📰 Read: bit.ly/3YOjhZb 📬 More CAPES news: umassmed.edu/capes/news/ #CAPES #SuicidePrevention #MensHealth

🌟 CAPES faculty Dr. Martha Zimmermann is partnering with Candlelit Care to test a mobile app supporting Black mothers at risk for perinatal mood & anxiety disorders. 📰 Read more: www.umassmed.edu/news/news-ar... #FacultySpotlight #PerinatalMentalHealth #HealthEquity #DigitalHealth #CAPES

🌟 Marlborough ED is now live on the Jaspr study! “I love this app — this is genius.” We’re excited to expand access to digital, evidence-based suicide care. Thanks to @JasprHealth + our Marlborough partners for making this possible. #CAPES #Jaspr #SuicidePrevention

New resource for clinicians: Effective Suicide Care — a clear, research-based guide on what works to reduce suicide risk. Reviewed by CAPES faculty Lourah Kelly, Ed Boudreaux & Rachel Davis-Martin. 🔗 Brief: online.fliphtml5.com/ucxxu/xxkh/#... 🔗 More resources: www.umassmed.edu/capes/clinic...

Dr. Ed Boudreaux, CAPES Director, presented new Jaspr implementation findings at IASR/AFSP—showing what supports successful digital suicide care in EDs. Poster here ⬇️

Why not a Barbie Themed Beach In?

Ultimately, failing in academia was the greatest relief I ever experienced scim.ag/4kgElQx

Forced abstinence has been shown repeatedly to be worse (ie harms and kills people at higher rates) than not intervening in people’s substance use at all. And it doesn’t even reduce drug use.

🚨HOT TAKE ALERT🚨 If you have built your scientific career off federal funding, you can organize a teach in at your favorite park or brewery to tell the public how you spend their tax dollars. AND why we should INCREASE federal research and development $$$. It’s not rocket science…or maybe it is?

Read my new FREE article "She Didn't 'Pick Wrong'. Society Failed By Creating Millions of Abusive Men. Link: open.substack.com/pub/dremmaka... It's time to stop blaming women for their "bad choices" in "picking abusive men". #domesticviolence

True in the US as well as the UK. We live in a talent economy. Today universities are the means of production. Also, both the humanities and science create long-term economic advantages to go along with their clear short-term economic benefits.

Get tips and resources from CAPES including crisis hotlines and textlines, warmlines, how to find a therapist, and stories of lived experience and peer led supports on our website www.umassmed.edu/capes/lookin...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Family support is an important part of recovery. If you're looking for organizations that can help you support a family member, see our 'How to Get Help for Someone Else' section of our website. www.umassmed.edu/capes/lookin...

One of the cruelest things about the NSF/NIH situations is that federal funders have been asking for acknowledgment about disparate impacts, inequality, etc. for years. To get a grant at all you had to (rightly) address those things. Now is the punishment for both caring and following the rules.

If you haven't already, join AAUP. Encourage your lab members to join their union, UAW local 2710. These are the orgs most likely to pressure Uni admin to join together with other Unis. As a starting model, see what Rutgers senate proposed for Big Ten schools: www.commondreams.org/news/rutgers...

I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.

Stop asking me about SEM and go take this free workshop instead!

The peer-reviewed NIAAA journal, Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, and all of the previously open access papers published in the journal have been removed from the web. arcr.niaaa.nih.gov/about-arcr

The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today. Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.

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Hats off to the Musicians Union!! #BruceSpringsteen #TaylorSwift

So grateful to have spent the weekend at #CPA2025. It was restorative to be surrounded by an amazing community of addiction scientists. @drzajac.bsky.social @dr-lauren-e-lewis.bsky.social @chearresearch.bsky.social @apadivision50.bsky.social

Attention addiction researchers:

We had such a great turnout and important talks and presentations on addiction recovery science at #NCARS2025. I'm especially grateful for our community partners, community board members, and plenary speakers! Stay tuned for the recordings! @chearresearch.bsky.social @jeapinitiative.bsky.social

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We're recruiting new members for our CHEARR community board of young adults who take or have taken medications for opioid use disorder. This is a paid opportunity to shape research in ways that are aligned with the voices of young adults #recovery #community #research #science

Especially relevant paper for folks in our @capessuicideprev.bsky.social ELSI Unit (Ethics, Legal, and Social Issues)

It's not about the fluoride or the seed oils or the synthetic/petroleum-based food dyes... It IS about undermining trust in science, medicine & public health & elevating pseudoscience, grifters & wellness influencers who can profit by selling fear& supplements open.substack.com/pub/techingi...

In this #podcast, one topic is that when I went to rehab I didn't believe I could get #sober. I hoped to learn how to use less. #recoveryposse www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbQn...

“To our knowledge, no evidence-based approach exists that shows supply-side interventions, such as policing and seizing drugs, reduces drug use or drug-related health problems.” #opioids #addiction #harmreduction filtermag.org/san-francisc...

I was unable to enjoy or feel proud of my accomplishments, in the first years of my #sobriety and #trauma work. Because my #anxiety was so severe, from my ptsd, that I focused on my disproportionate fears.

When you suppress the pain, you also suppress positive emotions. So to feel the full spectrum of life, you have to heal. #recoveryposse #trauma #women

Does anyone know approximately how many scientists the US federal government funds per year (across all agencies, including people supported by grants and fed workers)? Or where I could find this information?

Unlike meat, eggs or dairy, alcohol offers no nutritional benefit - but it consumes vast land, water and energy supplies. So why are we still treating it like a harmless luxury? Listen to our latest podcast with @meganpcook.bsky.social on alcohol's climate impacts: www.ias.org.uk/podcast/alco...

What’s happening in the courts of this country is deeply dangerous. Samuel Alito believes his ideology IS the law, and when district judges rule against his political views, the Supreme Court must exert power to impose Alito’s views. The Court is a threat to science and NIH and must be reformed.