Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Through Science and Policy
Sunday April 07, 2019
8:00 am
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10:00 am
Eastern Time (ET)
Room W205 A
BEH
CVP
DDD
DMDD
NEU
DPE
TOX
Chair :
Sophia Kaska
University of Kansas
Carol Paronis
McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School
The opioid epidemic is a major health crisis that the United States faces today. Despite the various health, economic, and social burdens that are associated with addiction, our society is still struggling to find effective methods to avoid addiction while treating patients and to also eliminate these burdens. Because of the complexity of the epidemic, the primary objective of this symposium is to learn more about how both opioid research and policy and community initiatives can be used to fight this crisis.
Speakers
Sharon Walsh
- University of Kentucky
Pharmacotherapeutic Approaches to Opioid Use Disorder: What Works and What’s Missing?
Phil Skolnick
- Opiant Pharmaceuticals
Fighting Fire with Fire: Development of Intranasal Nalmefene to Treat Synthetic Opioid Overdose
John Traynor
- University of Michigan
New Understanding of Opioid Receptor Function: Allosteric Modulation and Biased Agonism
Jane Acri
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
Goals and Accomplishments of the HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative