Editor's Note: Catherine Monk, interviewed here, is the Diana Vagelos Professor of Women's Mental Health in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
"Pregnant and postpartum people are known to face barriers to accessing drug treatment and harm reduction services," Emilie Bruzelius said in a Columbia news release.
Dr. Gaddy Noy, a psychiatrist in the emergency room at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital, said some days only a single psychiatric bed is free at nearby hospitals.
The flood of patients that sexual health clinics saw this summer has slowed to a trickle, said Dr. Jason Zucker, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Adam Brickman, professor of neuropsychology at Columbia University and the study’s senior author, said he wanted to understand when those racial and ethnic disparities began to manifest in the brain.
Editor's Note: Franklin Schneier, consulted for this article, is a special lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Editor's Note: Terry McGovern, the author of this opinion piece, is chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.
