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Op-eds, interviews, talks on video, press coverage, and a press kit for journalists. Joseph Friedman, MD, PhD gives interviews on addiction and overdose in English and Spanish.
Alongside my academic work, I have written popular press articles about addiction-related topics and served as a scientific expert in the media, in English and Spanish. Además de mi trabajo académico, he escrito artículos en la prensa popular sobre temas de adicciones y he participado en los medios como fuente experta, en inglés y en español.
My work has been discussed in media outlets including NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition, CBS News Radio, WBUR’s Here & Now, KCRW, Scripps News, Univision, Telemundo, NBC 7 San Diego, and KTLA. I have also given presentations to colleagues on engaging with the media.
Mi trabajo se ha comentado en medios como All Things Considered y Morning Edition de NPR, CBS News Radio, Here & Now de WBUR, KCRW, Scripps News, Univision, Telemundo, NBC 7 San Diego y KTLA. También he dado presentaciones a colegas sobre cómo trabajar con los medios.
Press kitKit de prensa
Contact. Email and put your deadline in the subject line. Interviews in English or Spanish.
Suggested identification. Dr. Joseph Friedman, MD, PhD, resident physician and researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego.
Topics. Overdose trends and data; fentanyl, xylazine, methamphetamine, and new adulterants; drug checking; counterfeit pills; methamphetamine-induced psychosis and psychiatric harm reduction; racial and ethnic inequalities in overdose; the US–Mexico border and Tijuana.
Short bio. Joseph Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH, is a research-track psychiatry resident and psychiatric epidemiologist at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Friedman studies the US overdose crisis, the illicit drug supply, and psychiatric harm reduction for methamphetamine-induced psychosis.
Long bio. Joseph Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH, is a research-track psychiatry resident and psychiatric epidemiologist at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Friedman uses national death records, medical examiner data, emergency medical services records, and community drug checking to track the US overdose crisis, including its “fourth wave” of deaths involving fentanyl together with stimulants. Dr. Friedman leads Drug Checking San Diego and Chill Packs, a pilot of self-administered olanzapine as psychiatric harm reduction for methamphetamine-induced psychosis. Trained in medicine and social medicine at UCLA and in global health metrics at the University of Washington, Dr. Friedman spent several years working in Tijuana, Mexico, and has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed articles, including first-author work in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Nature, and The Lancet.
Contacto. Escriba a e indique su fecha límite en el asunto. Entrevistas en español o en inglés.
Identificación sugerida. Dr. Joseph Friedman, MD, PhD, médico residente e investigador del Departamento de Psiquiatría de UC San Diego.
Temas. Tendencias y datos de sobredosis; fentanilo, xilacina, metanfetamina y nuevos adulterantes; análisis de sustancias; pastillas falsificadas; psicosis inducida por metanfetamina y reducción de daños psiquiátrica; desigualdades raciales y étnicas en las sobredosis; la frontera México–Estados Unidos y Tijuana.
Biografía breve. Joseph Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH, es médico residente en psiquiatría, en la especialidad de investigación, en la Universidad de California, San Diego, y trabaja en epidemiología psiquiátrica. Su investigación estudia la crisis de sobredosis en Estados Unidos, el suministro de drogas ilícitas y la reducción de daños psiquiátrica para la psicosis inducida por metanfetamina.
Biografía extendida. Joseph Friedman, MD, PhD, MPH, es médico residente en psiquiatría, en la especialidad de investigación, en la Universidad de California, San Diego, y trabaja en epidemiología psiquiátrica. Utiliza registros nacionales de defunción, datos de médicos forenses, registros de servicios médicos de emergencia y el análisis comunitario de sustancias para dar seguimiento a la crisis de sobredosis en Estados Unidos, incluida su “cuarta ola” de muertes que involucran fentanilo junto con estimulantes. Dirige Drug Checking San Diego y Chill Packs, un estudio piloto de olanzapina autoadministrada como reducción de daños psiquiátrica para la psicosis inducida por metanfetamina. Con formación en medicina y medicina social en UCLA y en métricas de salud global en la Universidad de Washington, pasó varios años trabajando en Tijuana, México, y ha publicado casi 100 artículos revisados por pares, incluidos trabajos de primera autoría en New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Nature y The Lancet.
Op-eds and commentaryArtículos de opinión
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Interviews and appearancesEntrevistas y apariciones
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Talks on videoCharlas en video
The Fourth Wave of the US Overdose Crisis:Rapid Shifts, Structural Drivers, and Systemic Inequalities in US Drug Policy
Structural Shifts or Business as Usual? An Ethnographic-Epidemiological Assessment of COVID-19-Related Changes to the Risk Environment for People who Inject Drugs in Tijuana, Mexico
Tracking rising racial/ethnic disparities in overdose mortality: Leveraging multiple data streams and now-casting for real-time disparities-oriented surveillance
The Shocking Social Patterns of Prescription Drug Use
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Coverage of researchCobertura de la investigación
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Illicit Fentanyl Use and Hepatitis C Virus Seroconversion Among People Who Inject Drugs in Tijuana and San Diego: Results From a Binational Cohort Study
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Fentanyl, Heroin, and Methamphetamine-Based Counterfeit Pills Sold at Tourist-Oriented Pharmacies in Mexico: An Ethnographic and Drug Checking Study
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Deaths of despair and Indigenous data genocide
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Trends in Drug Overdose Deaths Among US Adolescents, January 2010 to June 2021
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Evaluation of Increases in Drug Overdose Mortality Rates in the US by Race and Ethnicity Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Racial/Ethnic, Social, and Geographic Trends in Overdose-Associated Cardiac Arrests Observed by US Emergency Medical Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Overdose-Related Cardiac Arrests Observed by Emergency Medical Services During the US COVID-19 Epidemic
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Excess Out-Of-Hospital Mortality and Declining Oxygen Saturation: The Sentinel Role of EMS Data in the COVID-19 Crisis in Tijuana, Mexico
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Assessment of Racial/Ethnic and Income Disparities in the Prescription of Opioids and Other Controlled Medications in California
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Structural vulnerability to narcotics-driven firearm violence: An ethnographic and epidemiological study of Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican inner-city2019
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harm reduction fieldwork in Tijuana, Mexico
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