Zoe Adams is a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project and a resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her writing and research have been published in the Washington Post, Guernica magazine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
We Need More Meds, Not Beds, to Help People Recovering from Addiction
People recovering from substance use disorders need homes, jobs and medication-centered, quality health care, not just a bed in a residential treatment center
Against Medical Advice: Another Deadly Consequence of Our Opioid Epidemic
People struggling with addiction cite untreated withdrawal, pain, discrimination and stringent policies as reasons for leaving hospitals against medical advice. We need to take their complaints seriously