{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Healthy Project Podcast","title":"How Racial Bias Shapes Addiction Treatment with Joel Johnson","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2025,"description":"How does racial bias affect who receives addiction treatment and who faces punishment?\nJoel K. Johnson, president and CEO of TASC (Treatment Alternatives for Stronger Communities), joins Corey Dion Lewis to discuss how stigma, hospital practices, and gaps in community care shape treatment for Black patients experiencing substance use disorders.\nThey explore what should happen after someone survives an overdose, why discharge planning needs to start at admission, and how treatment before arrest can create alternatives to incarceration. Johnson also shares the encounter with a young man in juvenile detention that changed his career and the family experience that keeps this work personal.\nLearn how health systems can improve referrals, change stigmatizing language, and include people with lived experience in decisions about care.\nWhat happens when bias follows a patient into the emergency department?\nIn this episode of The Healthy Project, Corey Dion Lewis speaks with Joel K. Johnson about racial disparities in addiction treatment and how healthcare and criminal legal systems can build better pathways to recovery.\nJohnson explains why substance use disorders deserve consistent compassion and clinical care. He also discusses TASC’s work connecting people with treatment, supporting reentry, and helping communities develop alternatives to incarceration.\nIn this conversation:\nHow race influences whether substance use is treated as a health issue or a criminal issue.\nWhy labels like “clean” and “dirty” can undermine dignity in care.\nHow assumptions about “drug-seeking behavior” can affect clinical decisions.\nWhy surviving an overdose should lead to coordinated treatment and community support.\nHow fragmented funding and disconnected programs can weaken access to care.\nWhat deflection means and how it connects people with treatment before an arrest.\nWhy housing, food, education, and employment support belong in recovery planning.\nHow people with lived experience can shape...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/MSRYwgzVwmOkZXeinjXJXt6vM1REXDF2oD3ZSMgwLMU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lY2Zl/MzVlNDRkOWQ4MDEz/ZTNkOTY2MzMyNzYx/M2I0MC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}