Psychiatric Times August 30, 2024
Tomorrow, August 31, is Overdose Awareness Day. What can you be doing to help prevent overdose deaths?
CLINICAL CONVERSATIONS
August 31 is Overdose Awareness Day. A recent study shows that about 1 in 3 Americans have lost someone they knew to a drug overdose.1 To help address this issue, Psychiatric Times sat down withJoseph R. Volpicelli, MD, PhD, the executive director of the Institute of Addiction Medicine, to discuss the opioid crisis, best practices for substance use disorder treatment, and more.
Psychiatric Times: In your opinion, what should clinicians be doing to help prevent overdose deaths?
Joseph R. Volpicelli, MD, PhD: With over 100,000 deaths due to drug overdose this past year, it is important that all clinicians, regardless of...
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor