Jeremy Weleff, DO, instructor of psychiatry, is editor of a new issue of AMA Journal of Ethics titled, “Why Harm Reduction and Equity are Ethical Imperatives in Opioid Use Disorder Care.”
The issue examines advances in opioid use disorder (OUD) care as well as barriers to OUD care that produce systemic inequities. In so doing, it contributes to the critical conversation on addressing the opioid epidemic earnestly and fully to ensure access to the full spectrum of evidence-based interventions for all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic status.
Yale faculty and trainees who contributed to the issue are: Ellen L. Edens, MD, MPE, MA; Gabriela Garcia Vassallo, MD; Robert Heimer, PhD; Oluwole Jegede, MD, MPH; Julio C. Nunes, MD; Terence Tumenta, MD, MPH; Carmen Black, MD; and Joao P. De Aquino, MD; and Kimberly L. Sue, MD, PhD.