Stigma of opioids keeps users from seeking help, taints views of medical professionals
“Can you think of all the tax dollars it’s cost for you to go to detox?” the doctor asked Raina McMahan when she arrived at the clinic in Revere seeking help for her 15-year heroin addiction. “What is the matter with you?” McMahan, now six years into her recovery and a certified recovery coach at […]
Alvin Powell
• harvard
Oct. 11, 2019 • ~9 min
Oct. 11, 2019 • ~9 min
Summit to take wide-ranging look at factors of race, stigma, policy, and the lived experience of patients
A conference sponsored by Harvard and the University of Michigan will examine the role that stigma plays in the nation’s opioid crisis and ways it slows and alters responses.
Alvin Powell
• harvard
Oct. 8, 2019 • ~12 min
Oct. 8, 2019 • ~12 min
Harvard-Michigan opioid summit explores addiction, policy
A University of Michigan-Harvard University summit brought experts from the two universities as well as outside organizations to consider ways to address the opioid epidemic.
Alvin Powell
• harvard
May 13, 2019 • ~7 min
May 13, 2019 • ~7 min
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