40 - Addressing Addiction with Nzinga Harrison, MD

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Join Marcus & Vic as they learn from Nzinga Harrison, MD, how we need to change to address addiction in our healthcare system and society effectively. This is an informative and direct conversation with the leading expert in the field.
Nzinga explains how to:

• Un-Learn what we think we know about addiction,
• Un-Do the stigma that is killing people, and
• Un-Cover the conversations that we need to have to improve treatment for substance use disorder

Dr. Harrison is passionate and outspoken about the need to expand the addiction medicine
workforce. She is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer for Eleanor Health, an innovative
mental health and addiction treatment company, and has more than 20 years of experience
practicing medicine. She is a double-board certified physician with specialties in general adult
psychiatry and addiction medicine.
You can read more about these issues in her new book, Un- Addiction: 6 Mind-Changing
Conversations That Could Save a Life. She also appears in the award- winning documentary
Tipping the Pain Scale, which addresses the crisis of addiction in America.
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