2024--Race, Gender and Disability: Reimagining Controlled Substances Regulation in Health Care to Reduce Intersectional Harms

2024--Race, Gender and Disability: Reimagining Controlled Substances Regulation in Health Care to Reduce Intersectional Harms

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For more than a century, U.S. drug policy has been designed to disproportionately disempower and punish already marginalized communities. The effects have reverberated from the criminal legal system to matters as fundamental as employment, housing, and parenting. These structural forces of oppression are also pervasive in health care and result in serious and even life-threatening harms to people who use (or are perceived as using) controlled substances or could benefit from medical care that includes controlled substances. The symposium will examine the ways in which controlled substances laws and policies induce harm to individuals in need of appropriate health care. These harms are disproportionately felt by people in one or more minoritized and racialized groups (e.g., Black women with chronic pain), compounding the negative impacts of social determinants of health and worsening existing health inequities. Speakers will address specific areas of inequity and discrimination and offer approaches to reduce existing harm from current law and policy and its implementation.

Schedule

9:00 - 9:20 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks

Robert Gatter, JD, MA Director, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law

Kelly K. Gillespie, RN, JD, PhD Professor of Law, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law


9:20 – 11:00 a.m. | Session One ADDRESSING BARRIERS TO APPROPRIATE CARE FOR PREGNANT AND PARENTING PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS


Moderated by: Kelly Gillespie, JD, PhD, Professor, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law

Expecting Medication Surveillance: Reforming PDMPs and Clinical Trial Exclusion Jennifer D. Oliva, JD, MBA Professor of Law and Val Nolan Faculty Fellow Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Birth Justice Defined: From Theory to Action Jamille Fields Allsbrook, JD, MPH Assistant Professor of Law Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law

Caring for Pregnant And Parenting People with Substance Use Disorder - the WISH Center Experience Niraj Chavan, MD, MPH Associate Professor, Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women's Health Medical Director, Women and Infant Substance Help (WISH) Center Program Director, Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship Saint Louis University

Using Medical-Legal Partnership to Address the Family Regulation System as a Structural Determinant of Health for Parents with SUDs Danielle Pelfrey Duryea, JD, MA, LLM Director, Compliance Policy Clinic Co-Director, Health Justice Practicum Boston University School of Law

11:00 - 11:15 a.m. | BREAK


11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ǀ Session Two ADDRESSING BARRIERS TO APPROPRIATE CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC OR PERSISTENT PAIN


Moderated by: Sidney Watson, JD, Scholar in Residence, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law

The Pains of Racial Discrimination (via zoom) Alice Y. Abrokwa, JD, MPP Fellow Harvard Law School Project on Disability

Failed Policies, Legacy Patients, and Prescriber Paralysis: How Can We Do Better for Patients on Chronic Opioid Therapy? Fred Rottnek, MD, MAHCM Director of Community Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience Saint Louis University School of Medicine Professor, School of Law, Center for Health Law Studies

Abuse Deterrent Formulations, REMS, and Opioids Michael S. Sinha, JD, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Law Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch Break


1:30 - 3:10 p.m. ǀ Session Three ADDRESSING BARRIERS TO APPROPRIATE CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER, WHO NEED GENDER AFFIRMING CARE, AND WHO HAVE DRUG USE RELATED HEALTH NEEDS


Moderated by: Michael Sinha, JD, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law

Gender Affirming Care via Telehealth under DEA Rules in a Climate of Anti-LGBTQ Laws Heather Walter-McCabe, JD, MSW Associate Professor of Law and Social Work Wayne State University

Holistic Harm Reduction–#TraumaIsTheRealDrug LJ Punch, MD Executive Director and Medical Director Power4STL - Home of The T and The BRIC

Desegregating SUD Services for Children on Medicaid Valarie K. Blake, JD, MA Professor of Law Associate Dean of Professional Development & Research West Virginia University College of Law

Creating Oases in a Treatment Desert: Community-Responsive Outreach in the North St. Louis Corridor Aaron M. Laxton, MSW, LCSW, CCTP Executive Director Assisted Recovery Centers of America

3:10 - 3:15 p.m. | Closing Remarks

Webinar Date

2-23-2024

Keywords

Race, Gender, Disability, Reimagining Controlled Substances, Controlled Substances, Health Care, Intersectional Harms

Disciplines

Law

2024--Race, Gender and Disability: Reimagining Controlled Substances Regulation in Health Care to Reduce Intersectional Harms

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