i just remember like, being really little and having a sign that was like, bigger than me and a big crowd of people when there was a picket line. And so i don't even know what they were picketing, but i just remember very early on, and my dad being like, you do not disrespect anybody's cause by crossing their picket line. For those people that were raising their voices, i have no idea what the issue was. The so fascinating how all these things play into the choices that you made when you sort of, you wend up going to school. You went up in howard for undergrad pen for medical right? Ye, and then heading out into
As a physician with specialties in addiction medicine and psychiatry who has spent her career focusing on stigma reduction and health equity, Nzinga Harrison is uniquely positioned to help people navigate the stress of current events including from opioid crisis and COVID to racial violence and systemic injustice and move from thinking to action with the goal of improving health and society. Dr. Harrison is the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Eleanor Health, an innovative company who provides comprehensive outpatient care for individuals experiencing opioid and other substance use disorders. She also holds adjunct faculty appointments at the Morehouse School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, is Co-Founder of Physicians for Criminal Justice Reform, Inc. and Campaign Psychiatrist for Let’s Get Mentally Fit, a public education and stigma-reduction campaign. As host of the In Recovery weekly podcast by Lemonada Media, she engages a large audience on all things addiction including drug addiction, but also other addictions, for example food, sex, gambling.
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