“More Like Retail Than Healing”—Can the Opioid Crisis Bring Health Equity to...
Fifteen years ago, with an EMT colleague and an armed police officer, I arrived as a novice 25-year-old paramedic to a grungy college apartment in my hometown of Ithaca, New York to find a woman my...
View ArticleIn Healthcare, Urine Screens for Drugs Are Routinely Used to Justify Cruelty
Jed* is 42, with an athletic build, a finely striped button-down and soft, worried eyes that meet mine reluctantly. I’m meeting him for the first time, in 2017. A crumpled tissue, offered by Michelle,...
View ArticleUgly Disparities Among My Patients Demand Marijuana Racial Justice
As a doctor in a harm reduction clinic, the racist applications of our marijuana laws are regularly apparent to me. While white patients are typically given second chances, patients of color are...
View ArticleTelehealth Must Stay After COVID-19 to Save Our Patients From Overdose
March 2020. The stakes were enormous and the urgency acute: 1,000 of our patients were about to be pushed into opioid withdrawal for lack of medication. How many of those enduring miserable days of...
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