Session: Reflections on Addiction, Early Childhood Development, and Human Rights
Session objectives:
- Discuss the gap between human rights and social justice
- Critically examine the literature on in-utero substance exposure and subsequent neurobehavioral development
- Review assumptions of family separation policies and alternatives
- Inspire movement from “old questions” to “new questions”, pivot from drug focus to development focus
Speaker: Dr. Mishka Terplan, MD MPH
Mishka Terplan is board certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and in addiction medicine. His primary clinical, research, public health, and advocacy interests lie along the intersections of reproductive and behavioral health. He is Medical Director at Friends Research Institute and adjunct faculty at the University of California, San Francisco where he is a Substance Use Warmline clinician for the National Clinician Consultation Center. Dr. Terplan has active grant funding and has published extensively on health inequities, discrimination, and access to treatment. He has spoken at local high schools and before the United States Congress and has participated in federal and international expert panels primarily on issues related to gender, reproduction, and addiction.