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Blaming the Psychiatric Patient When It’s a Drug-Genetic Interaction

How can patients with psychiatric or any other illnesses be viewed as non-compliant with their medical regimes when there is a persistent failure to investigate how their race and genetics are affecting treatment

Prenatal Overdose Rejection Syndrome

A paper on how prenatal drug use and overdose traumatize a new life before birth

We Have Inadvertently Built Cultural Discrimination Into Our Healthcare Systems

We build and use discriminatory Healthcare Systems. Unintentional by design, these systems propagate inequality in patient care and promote racial disparities.

As Opioids Mixed With Animal Tranquilizers Arrive in Kensington, So Do Alarming Health Challenges

The neighborhood’s afflictions date to the early 1970s, when industry left and the drug trade took hold. With each new wave of drugs, the situation grows grimmer. Now, with the arrival of xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer, new complications are burdening an already overtaxed system.