Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic-Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use

Course overview

This is an advanced course that examines the neurobiology of addiction, how the currents research fails to recognize this, and how prescribed use leads to opioid misuse. It covers alternatives to prescribing opioid. It includes: basic brain research, the neurobiology of the reward pathway and the intersection of pain and opioid use disorder, preclinical and translational research, clinical research, intersection of pain and opioid use disorder, support for research and summary and recommendation.