Drug Dealers: The Opioid Epidemic

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2019-11-15

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Honors Symposium, The University of Tampa

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Dr. Anna Lembke, Associate Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine read from her book, "Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop." The presentation explains how addiction works, why people get addicted, and how there are many structural components to the opioid crisis in the US. Dr Lembke is a TED speaker and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. She is currently Associate Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and commentaries, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Addiction. She is the author of a bestselling book on the prescription drug epidemic: Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2016).

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Addiction, Opioid abuse, Prescription drug epidemic, Healthcare, America

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