Course Details
922: Understanding Addiction
February 3-6 (9:45-11:15 AM) and February 7 (1:45-3:15 PM)
TBA
In-Person
The course will start with a brief history of addiction and its consequences, as well as efforts to confront the problems starting in the 19th and 20th centuries. We will include segments of films that highlight problems with alcohol in men and women and opioid addiction, as well as tobacco and cannabis use. We will review the neurobiology underlying addiction, as well the political and socioeconomic factors that contribute to risk of drug/alcohol use and addiction. We will review successful national and community efforts to curtail drug and alcohol use epidemics through prevention; and we will review extant approaches to treatment. In the last session, we will be joined by the first White House Drug Czar. His work has been captured in the book, The Fix by Michael Massing.
Note: This course meets Feb. 3-6 at 9:45-11:15 AM and Feb. 7 at 1:45-3:15 PM.
Class Type: Lecture and Discussion
Class Format: TBA
Hours of Reading: No reading
Study Group Leader(s):
Roger MeyerCommencing at the NIH, Meyer has had a long career in academic medicine, leading NIH funded clinical research on opioid addiction (at Harvard and more recently at Penn State) and on alcoholism at the University of Connecticut, while also Chair of Psychiatry. He also served as consultant to three White House offices on addiction.