Addiction Medicine Podcast
The Addiction Medicine Podcast is designed for healthcare professionals and others interested in addiction medicine and will feature thoughtful conversations and insights from clinicians, patients and families, policymakers and other stakeholders.
Addiction Medicine Podcast
S1 Episode 1: Equity Explained, Systemic Racism and Suicide
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Season 1
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Episode 1
In Season 1 of the Addiction Medicine Podcast, Victor Armstrong, Chief Health Equity Officer at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, discusses equity as it relates to substance use disorder and mental health.
In Episode 1, Victor discusses what equity means to him, how he understands systemic racism and where his views may veer from popular consensus. Victor untangles suicide rates among young African-American men and offers thoughts on where our focus as healthcare professionals and society ought to be going forward.
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