Community Solutions to the Rising Tide of Prescription Opioid Misuse

Discover community-based solutions to opioid abuse in an incisive talk by H. Westley Clark, executive professor of public health at Santa Clara University and former director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in Washington, DC. Despite the utility of opioids for some pain treatments, the hemorrhaging of prescription opioids from therapeutic use to nontherapeutic use has become a public health nightmare across the United States. Gain an understanding of the surging public health problem of prescription opioid misuse, its link with opioid overdoses and its association with premature deaths. You also gain insight into the issue of pain management, both acute and chronic, linked to prescription opioid use and misuse and the concerns about physician prescribing and community diversion of opioids. Furthermore, Dr. Clark discusses the growing problem of heroin substitution for prescription opioids, as well as overdose reversal using naloxone.

Event Details
Free public lecture
Thursday, Sept.15
4–6 pm
UC Berkeley Extension
San Francisco Campus
160 Spear St., Room 608

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