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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · 29d

Yet another attempt to share our piece on neuropsychiatric disorders among emergency department patients with intellectual and developmental disorders..... I"m struck by the prevalent early-onset dementia among patients w/Down syndrome. This graph speaks for itself.… link.growkudos.com/1f3s851ezgg

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Sep 8

Beth McGinty and Magdalena Cerda in Milbank Quarterly-- Medicaid Cuts Will Heighten the US Mental Health and Substance Use Crisis www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

Medicaid Cuts Will Heighten the US Mental Health and Substance Use Crisis | Milbank Memorial Fund

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act's cuts to Medicaid will heighten the nation’s behavioral health crisis. Nationally, each year an estimated 20 to 25% of children and adults have a mental illness1 and 17...

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Sep 8

Went to a real gym for the first time in a long while. I turned out to be rusty and complacent in the sparring and physical combat dept. Came away with some impressive bruises in various places from hard contact and a dramatic taikedown. I had just forgotten how tough those treadmills can be .

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Sep 8

80 Years Ago, A Jewish Radical and Two Negro League Stars Led a Crusade to Integrate Baseball That Paved the Way for Jackie Robinson www.commondreams.org/opinion/80-y...

80 Years Ago, A Jewish Radical and Two Negro League Stars Led a Crusade to Integrate Baseball That Paved the Way for Jackie Robinson | Common Dreams

The little known story about Sam Nahem, Leon Day, and Willard Brown who in 1945 played on a field in the shadow of Adolph Hitler's Nazi Germany and broke down historic barriers.

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Aug 31

Boo!

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · Aug 29

All articles are freely available now, so check them out. There's still time to add them to your fall syllabi!

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · Aug 29

Finally there are two book reviews that are especially timely: Ann Keller's review of Pamuk's "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" and Robert Ostergard's review of Dahl's "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough"

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · Aug 29

In the Tracking Health Reform section, Gusmano and Thompson analyze the Biden administration's efforts to minimize losses of Medicaid enrollment during the "great unwinding". read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Medicaid and the Great Unwinding: The Administrative Presidency Meets Federalism | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · Aug 29

Last, Hemauer and Warner examine the dynamics of public support for school-based mental health services, an increasingly critical point of access. They offer recommendations for policymakers and local school administrators based on the public opinion findings. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Analyzing Public Support for School-Based Mental Health Services

Abstract. Context: Public schools play a central role in addressing the mental health crisis among American youth, but most schools are limited in the services they provide. As of 2019, 44% of adminis...

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · Aug 29

Next, Sprague et al. also examine state policy, looking at variation across state-level paid leave policies to assess inequities in access and coverage of these policies in the absence of a federal policy. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Paid Leave for Personal and Family Illness: Impacts of State Policy Design on Coverage and Access by Race, Gender, and Education Level | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Pr...

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · Aug 29

The next article, by Erickson and Meyer-Gutbrod, examines the interactions between news attention to opioids, overdose rates, and state-level political attention to opioids mortality. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

It’s Only a Crisis if It’s Fit to Print: Examining the Relationship Between Overdose Rates, News Coverage, and the Presence of the Opioid Crisis in State Legislative Campaigns | Journal of Health Poli...

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · Aug 29

The first article by Gudiksen et al. is a qualitative study examining employers' and insurers' perspectives about hospital consolidation. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Hospital Consolidation Across Geographic Markets: Insights from Market Participants on Mechanisms for Price Increases | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · Aug 29

New issue of @jhppl.bsky.social just dropped (Volume 50, Issue 5). Check it out, for a set of wonderful articles on topics that span health care, opioids, paid leave, and mental health, a great representation of the diversity in JHPPL. Thread here:

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Society for the Study of Addiction @addiction-ssa.org · Aug 28

A new editorial in @addictionjournal.bsky.social warns that US state and insurance provider policies are limiting patient access to higher doses of buprenorphine, one of the main medical treatments for opioid use disorders: doi.org/10.1111/add.... | DOI: 10.1111/add.70127
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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Aug 28

Someone asked for my 4 fave aphorisms in English prose:
1. Hurt people hurt people
2. Where your treasure is, your heart will be there also
3. Watch the way he treated his last girlfriend. That's the way he'll treat you
4. If you sit down at the poker table and don't know who the sucker is--you do

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Aug 28

Removing arbitrary limitations on Buprenorphine is one piece of the puzzle in addressing the opioid epidemic. Nicole Gastala, Brianna Hudak, Mai T. Pho, Katharine Wilcox, and I in Addiction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/A6UWCB...

Removing arbitrary limitations on buprenorphine for opioid use disorder

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Aug 20

“This is one more basic test for the media. Are they going to focus on the pretextual attacks to discredit Cook —the mortgage allegations, or her qualifications — or will they recognize the pattern of a government using its powers to crush any independent sources of power?” *obviously racist attacks

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 20

New, from me: A Trump official is concocting mortgage fraud claims to target opposition. It's a classic authoritarian trick.

Now they are doing it to Lisa Cook, the first Black female member of the Federal Reserve to push her to resign. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

Trump Uses Legal Threats to Push Federal Reserve Member To Resign

Trump administration's weaponization of the DOJ part of an authoritarian pattern

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · Aug 20

My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks, Stacie. Such stories are sadly common, and so often overlooked.

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Aug 13

This gift link should work. Losing a friend. Older men have the highest suicide rate of any demographic group. This challenge doesn't get nearly the attention it should.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/o...

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks, E.J. We are overdue for connecting

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Aug 13

I am a public health researcher

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Aug 13

Indeed. Thank you.

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Aug 13

No--complete amateur.

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Aug 13

Losing a friend. Older men have the highest suicide rate of any demographic group. This challenge doesn't get nearly the attention it should. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/o...

Harold Pollack: I studied the high male suicide rate. Then I lost my friend to it.

We middle-aged and older men face higher suicide rates than are found among our teenage sons and grandsons, or among women at any age.

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