Compassion First: a Primer on Stigma, Treatment and Harm Reduction | Dr. Sarah Wakeman

Dr. Wakeman's presentation was delivered as the keynote address for the Vermont Reimagining Drug Policy conference on November 9, 2023
Sarah Wakeman, MD is the Senior Medical Director for Substance Use Disorder at Mass General Brigham, Medical Director for the Mass General Hospital Substance Use Disorder Initiative, program director of the Mass General Addiction Medicine fellowship, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Wakeman is the Author of "Barriers to medications for addiction treatment: How stigma kills"
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