Connecting Care
Connecting Care: The Intersection of HIV and Opioid Use Disorder, is a podcast of the HRSA-funded initiative, Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use Disorder. We are working to ensure that people with HIV and OUD have access to care, treatment, and recovery services that are coordinated, client-centered, and culturally responsive.
Episodes
20 episodes
Harm Reduction Housing: Meeting People Where They Are
Access to safe and reliable housing has an enormous influence on a person’s health outcomes and ability to meet their needs. However, structural inequities and discriminatory practices associated with substance use can prevent or deter many peo...
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Episode 18
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34:44
Caring for People Living in Open Drug Scene Encampments: Challenges and Opportunities
A collision of drug criminalization, inadequate and discriminatory housing policies, and insufficient mental health and substance use care services has fostered open drug scene encampments in communities around the world. Open drug scene encamp...
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Episode 17
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45:57
Managing Risk among Youth: Delivering Substance Use Care during Emerging Adulthood
Throughout our Connecting Care podcast series, we’ve focused on different communities of adults with HIV and/or substance use disorders (SUDs). One population we haven’t yet covered is the adolescent and young adult population. Treating youth w...
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Episode 16
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36:53
Pathways to Care: Improving Methadone Access Under Existing Regulations
Methadone can be a life-changing treatment option for people with opioid use disorder. However, a number of federal and state regulations and logistical requirements can inhibit a person’s ability to start and/or maintain methadone treatment. T...
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Episode 15
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43:45
What the Americans with Disabilities Act Means for People with HIV and Opioid Use Disorder
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal civil rights statute that was enacted in 1990 to protect individuals with disabilities from discrimination by employers, state and local government, and public-serving entities. The rights ...
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Episode 14
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41:42
Caring for People Who Have Been Incarcerated: Substance Use Care in the Transition from Jail or Prison
Building on last month’s episode about providing HIV and substance use care for people who are incarcerated, this month the Boston Medical Center team talks with Dr. Ricky Cruz, a primary care physician and addiction specialist who frequently p...
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Episode 13
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36:46
HIV and Substance Use Care in the Jail or Prison System: Spotlight on care delivery
Navigating the HIV and substance use systems of care presents a number of unique challenges, many of which can become more complex depending on a person’s housing, employment, mental health, or economic situation. One system that immediately co...
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Episode 12
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40:35
The Case for Safe Consumption Spaces: Reducing Fatal Overdoses and Increasing Linkage to Care
In response to an increased risk of overdose, several communities in the U.S. are considering establishing spaces for people to use substances safely. These spaces have been referred to as Supervised Injection Facilities, safe consumption space...
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Episode 11
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36:15
Disclosing a New HIV Diagnosis and Starting HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in People with Active Substance Use
The growing opioid crisis across the United States has resulted in an increase in new HIV diagnoses. For many people, receiving an HIV diagnosis is life-changing news, and a person’s circumstance can dictate how providers deliver the diagnosis ...
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Episode 10
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37:37
Holistic Care for Hepatitis C: Experiences from Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
This month’s Connecting Care episode is the second in a two-part series about treatment for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) among people with opioid use disorder. In this second podcast, the Boston Medical Team takes a closer look at some of the challe...
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Episode 9
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40:22
Holistic Care for Hepatitis C: Prevention, Treatment, and Policy Considerations
This month’s Connecting Care episode is the first in a two-part series about treatment for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) among people with opioid use disorder. In this first podcast, the Boston Medical Team discusses new HCV treatment options, pol...
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Episode 8
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31:10
Strengthening Methadone Programs: Advancing Policy and Practice in the U.S.
This month’s Connecting Care episode continues the conversation about barriers to methadone treatment for patients, stigma, and what we can learn from other countries to advance policy and practice for methadone in the US.
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Episode 7
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38:44
Strengthening Methadone Programs: A Harm Reduction Perspective
This month’s Connecting Care episode discusses the challenges associated with entering and staying in methadone treatment programs and opportunities to improve treatment experiences for all.Hiawatha Collins is the community mobilization...
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Episode 6
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38:34
Understanding Structural Racism within HIV and OUD Care
This month’s Connecting Care episode discusses the impact of structural racism at the intersection of HIV and OUD care and opportunities to think outside of the box to effect change. Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, an infectious disease physician who has d...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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31:04
Meeting clients where they are: providing HIV prevention and treatment on the frontlines
For Boston Health Care for the Homeless nurse Megan Sonderegger, providing client-centered care means literally meeting her clients where they are."To want to take PrEP, you have to have some hope for your future. If you have no hope and...
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Episode 4
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36:01
Reaching those who need it most: HIV prevention for people who inject drugs
Approximately one in seven black women who inject drugs in the United States will go on to contract HIV in her lifetime. That compares to one in 26 women who inject drugs overall, and one in 42 men who inject drugs overall. There a...
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Episode 3
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36:30
HIV Services for People Who Inject Drugs
When people learn there's a pill that's been available for many years, that will keep them safe from HIV. They are surprised and may want to know more. And when people are surprised and even upset, we know we need to do more.This month’...
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Episode 2
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44:45
The Intersection of HIV and OUD in the time of COVID-19
COVID-19 has changed the way society operates in countless ways. During our inaugural podcast, our team of addiction specialists and HIV providers, Drs. Alex Walley, Jessica Taylor and Sim Kimmel from Boston Medical Center, discuss how COVID-19...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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38:07