Tuesday, February 12, 2019, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EST

PLEASE NOTE: TUESDAY MEETING

Carl C. Hug, Jr., MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology Emeritus, School of Medicine

"The Opioid Crisis in 2019"

The crisis continues, but many changes have occurred that are intended to reduce the factors contributing to opioid availability, overdose deaths, addiction risks, and other complications. The producers and distributors of opioids are under pressure to reform. The medical specialty of pain medicine is altering the approach to pain treatment, especially for non-cancer chronic pain and to post-surgical pain.