The opioid epidemic's impact on public health and patient care

2017-10-04

University of Virginia. School of Medicine

The opioid epidemic raging in the U.S., including in Virginia and neighboring states, took nearly two decades to develop and will take years to quell. So says the recent National Academy of Medicine (NAM) report, Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic: Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use (July 2017). Drug overdose due to opioid medications is now this country's leading cause of unintentional injury death. The current crisis is particularly challenging because the epidemic's broad reach "has blurred the formerly distinct social boundary between prescribed opioids and illegally manufactured ones, such as heroin," asserts the NAM committee's chair, UVA law professor Richard J. Bonnie. 

In this Medical Center Hour, Professor Bonnie and palliative care specialist Dr. Leslie Blackhall address the impact of this epidemic on public health and patient care and discuss what actions regulatory bodies, health care organizations, and health care professionals could take.

A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture

Bonnie, Richard J. (Speaker); Blackhall, Leslie J. (Speaker); Childress, James F. (Moderator); University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Filmed lectures

Opioid abuse; Public health; Cancer pain--Treatment

Medical Center Hour

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

English

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