By Xenia Shi Bion, California Health Care Foundation, August 19, 2019
The camera pans to the therapist as she finishes scribbling a note and sets down her pen. “You’re a perfect candidate for buprenorphine,” she says to her patient. “Let’s get you to a doctor who can prescribe it.”
As far as we know, this is not a scene in a real TV show or movie, but it’s one that freelance journalist Zachary Siegel would like to see. Siegel, a journalism fellow at Northeastern University’s Health in Justice Action Lab, imagined this scene at a recent panel on addiction and mental health presented by Hollywood, Health & Society. (CHCF is a funder of the group).
To Siegel, who was treated for addiction himself eight years ago, this is an example of health messaging done right.
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