Psychiatric Times May 2, 2024
How can novel technologies help address stigma and improve care for patients with SUDs?
CONFERENCE REPORTER
“It turns out that clinicians’ attitudes are worse toward patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) than toward any other medical or psychiatric condition, and the attitudes get worse over time.”
In this Mental Health Minute, Jonathan Avery, MD, vice chair for addiction psychiatry and program director of addiction psychiatry fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, gives Psychiatric Times® a preview of “Affective Computing and the Mind: Harnessing Novel Technology to Improve Medical Education for Substance Use Disorders,” his upcoming presentation at the 2024 American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting.
In the presentation, Avery and colleagues from Weill Cornell and the...