Joint Senate Task Force on Opioids, Addiction and Overdose Prevention Testimony

• By: Richard Juman, PsyD New York State Psychological Association Division on Addictions
• January 1st, 2020
• addiction treatment, chronic pain management, evidence-based interventions, harm reduction, medication-assisted treatment, opioid crisis, overdose prevention, substance use disorders
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In 1804, Frederich Serturner experimented with opium and created something new—morphine—named after the Greek god of sleep and dreams, Morpheus. More than 200 years later, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers fall asleep at night under the influence of an opioid. Every morning, a few of...