It’s a simple fact that this country does little to address women’s healthcare needs.
Attention Must Be Paid: Women Lost in the Opioid Crisis, explores the stories of women who are battling opioid use disorder (OUD) and are casualties of this neglect. What has this indifference to women’s health wrought?
Proven, evidence-based treatments are not readily available to women across the societal spectrum.
Our daughters, mothers, sisters, friends.
ATTENTION MUST BE PAID — and then ACTION taken.
REVIEWS
My sister was constantly in the churn of medical/physical needs, dependence, addiction, incarceration, recovery attempts, poor rehab options, etc. None of this was EVER structured for the needs of women. Like several of the stories in this documentary, her story did not end well, and our system is partially to blame. This needs to change and Debra’s documentary spells out all the reasons why this is clear.
Thanks for doing these women and all women with opioid addiction this justice, revealing the limitations and biases they face.
The Experts
Nora Volkow, M.D.
Director, National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Marvin Seppala, M.D.
Former Chief Medical Officer, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Ayana Jordan, M.D./ Ph.D.
Adult Psychiatry, NYU/Langone Health
Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD, a renowned expert in addiction and other mental health conditions in underserved populations. She joined NYU Langone Health’s Department of Psychiatry as the Barbara Wilson Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Her clinical and research studies focus on increasing access to evidence-based treatments for racial and ethnic minorities with substance use and other mental health disorders, utilizing community-engaged research principles.
Michael Fingerhood, M.D.
Director, Division of Addiction Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
The Filmmakers
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The Women
BARBARA FRIEDMAN
Los Angeles, California
CAROL VANCONNETT
Auburn, Washington
SUSIE RATHBUN
Henry, Illinois
JUANITA PEREZ ANDERSON
Chico, California
STEPHANIE ROSELL
Spokane, Washington