The Redux

DEA Telehealth Guidance: A Step Backward

This guidance, requiring individuals to make an in-person appointment in the 30 days post-initiation of medication, will prevent the people who would benefit the most from these treatments from receiving help. It reinforces outdated practices that have proven ineffective in addressing our national overdose crisis.

Hidden Suffering

The decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade will cause incredible suffering among some of our most-vulnerable communities. Working in this business, you get to see behind the curtain. We get to hear the secrets, often for the first time. We get to see the overwhelming hypocrisy of such simplistic policies.

Juneteenth in MN

Juneteenth in the Twin Cities is bound in my mind to the murder of George Floyd and the persistence of Marc Johnigan and the Twin Cities Recovery Project — to celebrate when everything is bleak.

• The world is full of evil, injustice, and malignant indifference
• We should celebrate the hell out of the rest of it

Christina Farr: A long response to a short question...

This morning on the Health Tech Nerds Slack Channel... Apparently, I have thoughts on this topic.

YourPath Data Point: Where are our clients from?

Housing instability can create significant barriers to accessing treatment, treatment retention, health and a host of other issues related to social determinants.

YourPath Data Point: Unhoused populations

As we help our clients access resources and navigate systems of care, it is imperative that we place their desires for care above any of our preconceived notions of what that care should look like.

YourPath Data Point: Average overdoses per patient

The horrific consequences of the Covid pandemic wrapped in the mental health, substance use, and overdose epidemic require an urgency for innovation.

Digital SUD health services in 2022

Intemperate predictions for 2022. Nothing more exciting than SUD healthtech.

Healing Ecosystems

We plant trees for people who won’t be born for decades. We undertake remediation plans that consider the revitalization of watersheds and forests in terms of 100’s of years.

Misters Rogers

Fred or Carl?

Our friend, Marc Johnigan

With people like Marc, I think his power comes from us all feeling like there is a small part of him that was special to each of us.

No shortcuts: Value-based care

Effective, healing systems are defined by fundamental alignment with the holistic needs of the patient and their preferences.

Where will innovation come from?

We need the heft of academia and the moral weight of trusted institutions. We need the urgency and magnetism for raw aptitude of the best VC-funded companies.

Necessity: Invention's mom

Innovation isn't contrived. It is annoyingly slippery. It is paradoxical. But for me, it tends to show up when we mix a global understanding with a very specific focus for our curiosity.

The Cure

I've been thinking a lot about Greg Williams’ recent blog post and my experiences with cures for behavioral patterns.

Comprehensive Assessments: formerly the Rule 25

Anyone who has ever had to find treatment for a loved one in the state of Minnesota knows — it all starts with the Comprehensive Assessment (formerly called a Rule 25).

Guilty

“At some point, this trial also becomes a trial of our criminal justice system...

How do we change?

In my passive-aggressive, white, midwestern, Minnesota-Nice existence, conflict was equated with violence. The capacity for tolerance of injustice was nearly infinite.

A general overview

This video covers a little of what we are planning on rolling out early this summer.