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Nzinga A. Harrison, MD | Power, Recovery & Equity

Good Life Project

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Addiction and Addictions - What Drew You to the Field?

As a medical student, my second psychiatry rotation was with the liver transplant psychiatrist. And it was just so many of those folks that needed livers was because of alcohol use disorder or hepotitecy from ivy drug use. I saw the way they got treated in the hospital, and it just, like set me on fire,. People should not get treated this way for having an illness at their most vulnerable time when they are literally about to die unless they get this liver. Like, i cannot believe that doctors and hospital systems are treating these people the way they are treating these people. That was when i became passionate and got set on fire for addiction care. But to your point, tons

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