EP 109: Designing Harm Reduction Kimberly Sue

On today's episode, we are going to talk about designing harm reduction. Dr. Kimberly Sue is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with the Program in Addiction Medicine (Division of General Internal Medicine) at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the former Medical Director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY, which strives to improve the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs. Currently, she serves as an Attending Physician at the Central Medical Unit, APT Foundation, which provides primary care to patients receiving methadone and other substance use treatment services and supervises fellows and trainees within the Yale Addiction Medicine Fellowship program. She also is an Attending Physician on the hospital-based Yale Addiction Medicine Consult Service. She holds board certification in both Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Sue trained at Harvard's MD-PhD Social Science Program, and has a PhD in sociocultural anthropology. Her book, Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis (2019), is based on her research on women with opioid use disorder in Massachusetts prison and jails. Her current research interests include harm reduction, stigma, gender/women and substance use, and overdose response strategies on local, state, and federal levels. Episode mentions and links: Yale Medicine Harm Reduction Coalition Kim's Book: Getting Wrecked Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis NEXT Distro (mail based harm reduction service) On Point NYC Restaurant Kim would take you to: Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria Napoletana (or Sally’s or Modern or any one of the many highly revered New Haven Pizza joints) Follow Kim: Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn Episode Website:

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EP 109: Designing Harm Reduction Kimberly Sue is an episode from Design Lab with Bon Ku by Bon Ku.

This episode is 34:56 long.

This episode was published on Feb 23, 2023.

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