National Black Caucus of State Legislators Conference U.S. Surgeon General Calls For Racial Equity In Opioid Response By Carmel Wroth • Dec 4, 2017 Gretchen Frazee / WTIU News At the National Black Caucus of State Legislators Conference in Indianapolis, U.S. Surgeon General and former Indiana Health Commissioner Jerome Adam called for racial equity in addressing the opioid epidemic.