Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Ethnicity and Substance Abuse
Abstract
Contemporary racism in the United States contributes to health, mental health, and substance use disorder (SUD) disparities among People of Color (POC) compared with White individuals. Despite entering into substance use treatment with a greater severity of SUD and related consequences, POC experience more barriers to treatment engagement, completion, and satisfaction than their White counterparts. As substance use treatment counselors are socialized within institutions of systemic racism, it is important to examine their positioning on racism in relation to their capacity for culturally competent care. This article articulates a need to implement an antiracist framework for substance use treatment.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2018.1548323
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Matsuzaka, Sara and Knapp, Megg, "Anti-racism and substance use treatment: Addiction doesn’t discriminate, but, do we?" (2021). Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 169.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/social-work-and-child-advocacy-facpubs/169
Published Citation
Matsuzaka, S., & Knapp, M. (2019). Anti-racism and substance use treatment: Addiction doesn’t discriminate, but do we? Journal of Ethnicity and Substance Abuse, 19(4), 567–593. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2018.1548323