Everybody Hurts: How We Understand and Treat Pain and Addiction

Wednesdays, April 17 - May 22
7:00pm – 8:30pm
UCSF’s Parnassus Campus
513 Parnassus Avenue, School of Nursing Building
Rooms N-217 & N225
Course# MLL19022

Course Chairs

Kathy Vo, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
University of California, San Francisco
Affiliation with the California Poison Control System, San Francisco Division

Course Description

While many of us experience pain, there can be significant challenges to its diagnosis and treatment given the interplay of environment, genetics, psychology, and cognition on how pain is perceived. Complex factors have led to an opioid “epidemic”, with more deaths in the US from drug overdose than from HIV, car crashes or gun violence. Roughly, 40% of opioid overdose deaths involve a prescription opioid. In this series, taught by experts at UCSF and across the Bay Area in pain and addiction management, we will explore the patient, provider, health system, and cultural barriers to providing appropriate pain relief, approaches to avoid opiate addition, and treatments for addiction when it does occur.

Lecture Schedule

PLEASE NOTE: Schedule or speakers may change on short notice

** Please note series dates **

4/17/19
Title: Low barrier-buprenorphine programs to treat opioid use disorder in persons experiencing homelessness, safe consumption sites, and homeless deaths. Download Slides
Barry Zevin, MD
Assistant Professor

4/24/19
Title: Medication Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Download Slides
Scott Steiger, MD,  FACP, FASAM
Associate Clinical Professor
General Internal Medicine UCSF

5/1/19
Title: Non-Pharmacologic Pain Treatments and discussion of her own struggle with pain.
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Featured in the film: “States of Grace”
Grace Dammann, MD
HIV / AIDS Physician

5/8/19
Title: History of the Opioid Crisis: How We Got Here Download Slides
Phillip Coffin, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology

5/15/19
Title: The Triple Wave Epidemic: Opioids, Heroin and Fentanyl Download Slides
Daniel Ciccarone, MD, MPH
Professor, Family & Community Medicine

5/22/19
Title: The Drug Policy Alliance and San Francisco and California Drug Policies Download Slides
Laura Thomas, MPP, MPH
Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology