Tuesday, November 12, 2024
9:00am-12:15pm
Dr. Corrie Vilsaint
Dr. Corrie Vilsaint serves on faculty at Harvard Medical School and as the Associate Director of Recovery Health Equity at the Recovery Research Institute. As a community psychologist and an international speaker, her research focuses on health equity in substance use disorders, reducing recovery-related discrimination, building recovery capital, and the effectiveness of recovery support services.
New science has identified recovery vital signs as a non-linear dynamic process. Seventy percent of people with substance use disorder will remit. However, the odds are not the same for everyone. In the U.S. Black and Latinx people are half as likely to remit compared to their White counterparts despite having no higher prevalence of substance use disorders. Health disparities can be addressed through a lens of racial literacy, understanding sources and consequences of SUD stigma, the historical role of medical mistrust in Black communities, identification of where disparities exist on the care continua, and implementing evidence-based strategies in the clinic and community.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the non-linear process of recovery vital signs and who needs what when.
- Explain the sources and consequences of SUD stigma.
- Identify at least 2 actionable strategies to mitigate SUD stigma.
- Improve racial literacy by summarizing the sources of medical mistrust, causes of health disparities, and social versus biological interpretation of race.
- Identify where racial health care disparities exist on the care continua
- Describe the nature, scope, and efficacy of recovery support services.
- Identify at least 2 actionable strategies for creating equitable health outcomes in treatment.
