Podcast Episode 22: "Breaking Barriers to Care: Expanding Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Through Academic Detailing"

Host: Anna Morgan-Barsamian, MPH, RN, PMP, Senior Manager, Training & Education, NaRCAD

A conversation with Finn Black, RN, MS and Rebecca Martinez, MS, RN, FNP-C, Center for Innovative Academic Detailing on Opioids & Stimulants (CIAO)
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​Tag: Podcast Series, Opioid Safety

​What if access to medications for opioid use disorder didn’t have to start in a clinic?

​In this episode of Changing Minds, host Anna Morgan-Barsamian is joined by Finn Black and Rebecca Martinez from the Center for Innovative Academic Detailing on Opioids and Stimulants (CIAO). They discuss how academic detailing supported the rapid implementation of a telehealth and street-based initiative designed to expand access to buprenorphine for people who use opioids. The conversation highlights patient-centered program design, scalable clinician support, and key lessons for cities responding to urgent public health challenges.

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Finn is a registered nurse who is originally from Philadelphia and has been involved in the harm reduction community in the Bay Area for the past 9 years. They currently work as a research clinician and clinician trainer at the SF DPH Center on Substance Use and Health. 

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Rebecca is a family nurse practitioner who was born and raised in the Bay Area. She currently works at the Office-Based Buprenorphine Induction Clinic (OBIC) doing direct patient care, at the SFDPH Center on Substance Use and Health as a clinician trainer on opioid and stimulant-related topics, and at the UCSF National Clinician Consultation Center as a consultant on the national PEP and PrEP guidelines. 

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