Understanding Barriers to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Among Patients Leaving SF County Jails
Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez
- 12 May 2021
Speaker: Nicky Mehtani, MD, MPH Associate Physician and Volunteer Clinical Instructor Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine UCSF School of Medicine
Learning objectives
At the end of this presentation, learners will be able to identify:
1) Unique risks faced by justice-involved patients in regard to opioid use
2) Challenges in the linkage to addiction treatment at the time of re-entry
3) The role of racism in exacerbating barriers to addiction treatment access
4) Current interventions being designed to mitigate such barriers in San Francisco County jails
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