Updates in Addiction Medicine: Overdose Reduction, Equity, and Innovations in Care Delivery

The twin crises of addiction and overdose remain headline news, with a growing toll in lives lost and ruined. In this Medical Grand Rounds presentation, three of our faculty experts in addiction medicine will describe ongoing efforts to address these crises, the disproportionate toll that addiction poses to marginalized populations, innovative new approaches, and ongoing challenges.
Speakers
Ayesha Appa, MD, is an assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine at ZSFG. She completed fellowships in both Infectious Diseases and Addiction Medicine. Her research is focused on the implementation of models that provide simultaneous treatment of substance use disorders and HIV or other serious infections.
Marlene Martin, MD, is an associate professor of Medicine, based in the Division of Hospital Medicine at ZSFG. She also serves as director of the award-winning Addiction Care Team (ACT), an interprofessional consult service that provides compassionate care focused on harm reduction and evidence-based treatment for patients with substance use disorders.
Christy Soran, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor of Medicine and medical director of the Outpatient Buprenorphine Induction Clinic (OBIC). Her areas of interest are the integration of addiction medicine treatment into primary care, the overlap of substance use and chronic pain, medical education, patient-empowered clinical care, and building trustworthiness in medicine.
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Program Bob Wachter: Introduction
00:01:58-00:09:55 - Ayesha Appa, MD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine at ZSFG
00:10:09-00:24:41 - Marlene Martin, MD, associate professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at ZSFG and director of the Addiction Care Team (ACT)
00:24:47-00:35:06 - Ayesha Appa, MD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine at ZSFG
00:35:10-00:46:19 - Christy Soran, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Medicine and medical director of the Outpatient Buprenorphine Induction Clinic (OBIC)
00:46:39-00:58:18 - Q&A
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[@johnjon1823]

The problems in "equity" are, for the most part, not related to race, they are problems related to behavior and choices. Therefore, talking about skin color as though it is the magic determinate is not merely myopic but racist. What is statistically significant in correlations of success are not race dependent at all, as are other achievements or failures. What correlates for success is, in fact, not a function of skin color, or racial bigotry. Except inasmuch as the left classifies people and expectations and even guilt based on skin color. To that extent the left creates ideological ghettos into which it places human beings based on skin color and behaves as racists, while claiming to decry it. The pathetic unwillingness of these entrenched ideologues to examine the actual facts of the situation, and indeed their part in promulgating it, is a tyranny. Why so much prejudice against Asians? Why must they be held back and score higher to get into select places of higher educations? Racism of the left, that's why.

[@joehopfield]

Did you listen to more than the first minute? An hour of incredibly well researched best practices, literally saving lives. Meanwhile you're a bot or a terrified racist.