Healthcare Discrimination on the basis of individuals with addiction issues: Discrimination in healthcare, we are looking at the lack of consideration, empathy and personal opinions for individuals based on their identity. This could be a marginalized group, but it does not exclude others. Everyone can experience discrimination. When we look at the ASAM (American Society of Addiction Medicine), they view addiction as a chronic illness, a medical condition. If this is a medical condition, then it is treatable and should be treated as such. When hospitals stop treating medical conditions, they stop being a hospital and start to become a business for the elite. 

Interventions in holding hospitals accountable for screening properly in emergency rooms: Holding hospitals accountable for screening purposes in the ER it has been an important topic for more than 20 years in research and creating policy (Samuels-Kalow et al., 2021). Interventions are needed because hospitals need to be held accountable for having a screening process to meet everyone’s needs without causing harm. Personal opinions can prevent proper screening for certain individuals whether it’s because of race, sexuality, gender, and more. Recommendations can create more organization in the screening process and it will cause positive health results that mean something to the patients (Weber et.al., 2023).

 “Numerous United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)-related screening recommendations about alcohol and substance use disorders, HIV, suicide, and other conditions have been researched in the emergency setting and are potentially amenable to ED screening (Weber et.al, 2023).” 

Samuels-Kalow, M. E., Boggs, K. M., Cash, R. E., Herrington, R., Mick, N. W., Rutman, M. S., Venkatesh, A. K., Zabbo, C. P., Sullivan, A. F., Hasegawa, K., Zachrison, K. S., & Camargo, C. A. (2021, January). Screening for health-related social needs of emergency department patients. Annals of emergency medicine. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7755764/  

Weber, W., Heins, A., Jardine, L., Stanford, K., & Duber, H. (2023, May). Principles of screening for disease and health risk factors in the emergency department. Annals of Emergency Medicine. https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(22)00442-5/fulltext 

Asam - American Society of Addiction Medicine. Default. (n.d.). https://www.asam.org/