American Society of Addiciton Medicine
Aug 9, 2021 Reporting from Rockville, MD
Editorial Comment 3/16/2021: Advancing Racial Justice in Addiction Medicine
https://www.asam.org/news/detail/2021/08/09/editorial-comment-3-16-2021-advancing-racial-justice-in-addiction-medicine
Aug 9, 2021
The readers may be best served this week with a renewed link to the 25 February 2021 policy on racial justice. My understanding of social movements is that they are most likely to be successful if 1) their adoption costs the opposition nothing tangible; 2) they are tied to a shared, positive experience (as in “marriage”); and 3) they are persistent, as the drumming of raindrops on a stone. Brevity helps; the linked document is all of 4 pages before the references, and its recommendations occupy only one page. Perhaps start with the “Recommendations”, please, and then you will feel your time best-respected. If you find the concepts and the reasoning are exportable to your own work or other professional setting, please cite freely. The greater the concord, the greater the momentum to long-delayed remedies. - Editor-in-Chief: Dr. William Haning, MD, DFAPA, DFASAM

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Editorial Comment 3/16/2021: Advancing Racial Justice in Addiction Medicine

Aug 9, 2021

The readers may be best served this week with a renewed link to the 25 February 2021 policy on racial justice:

https://www.asam.org/docs/default-source/public-policy-statements/asam-policy-statement-on-racial-justiced7a33a9472bc604ca5b7ff000030b21a.pdf?sfvrsn=5a1f5ac2_2

My understanding of social movements is that they are most likely to be successful if 1) their adoption costs the opposition nothing tangible; 2) they are tied to a shared, positive experience (as in “marriage”); and 3) they are persistent, as the drumming of raindrops on a stone.  Brevity helps; the linked document is all of 4 pages before the references, and its recommendations occupy only one page.  Perhaps start with the “Recommendations”, please, and then you will feel your time best-respected.

If you find the concepts and the reasoning are exportable to your own work or other professional setting, please cite freely.  The greater the concord, the greater the momentum to long-delayed remedies.

- Editor-in-Chief: Dr. William Haning, MD, DFAPA, DFASAM