Host Se��n Collins talks with Dr. Carlos Blanco, lead author of a perspective piece published June 16, 2022, in the New England Journal of Medicine titled, "Research to Move Policy ��� Using Evidence to Advance Health Equity for Substance Use Disorders."

The authors note that, despite substantial efforts to address the epidemic of drug-overdose deaths in the United States, racial and ethnic disparities in treatment access and outcomes among patients with substance use disorders have widened. Rates of overdose deaths are rising faster in Black, Latinx, and American Indian and Alaska Native populations than in White populations.

Dr. Blanco talks with Se��n about barriers to the best care possible along with ways medicine can make that care available to all regardless of race and ethnicity.

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Carlos Blanco, M.D., Ph.D., MS

Director, Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research

National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Institutes of Health

Rockville, Md.

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Link to the piece in the New England Journal of Medicine:��

Research to Move Policy ��� Using Evidence to Advance Health Equity for Substance Use Disorders

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