Substance Use Disorders – Issues Within The Black Community

Listen to psychotherapist, addiction counselor, clergyman, and black man, Tommy McGee, LMHC, CAP, QS, as he takes us on a tour of the black community, the perception of the medical system by black patients, the barriers it creates for black patients to approach the system for prevention and treatment, insurance barricades, the role of the churches in dealing with mental health problems, the need to ‘translate’ their culture, and to translate their tangible needs into tangible policies and actions.

The Palm Beach County Medical Society recorded this podcast in collaboration with Hanley Foundation’s Safe Prescribing Initiative and the Opioid Taskforce.