Always Black or White? Advances in Sciences & Medications for SUD Treatment

SUD treatment often falls into one of two broad categories:  abstinence-based or medication-assisted treatment.  Unfortunately, the decision to guide a client to one or the other approach is not always based on current scientific evidence.  This session will present current advances in differential therapeutics (which treatment for different clients), scientific advances in medication therapy and science-based monitoring as considerations in selecting SUD treatment for individual clients to optimize outcomes.

About the Speaker:

Steven D. Passik, PhD
Director of Clinical Addiction Research & Education
Millennium Laboratories

Dr. Passik is the Director of Clinical Addiction Research and Education for Millennium Laboratories and Principal Investigator for Millennium Research Institute. He previously served on the faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, as professor of psychiatry and anesthesiology.

He was section co-editor for the opioid pain and addiction section of Pain Medicine, served on the editorial board of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management and has been a reviewer for many peer reviewed journals, including The Clinical Journal of Pain. Dr. Passik was editor-in-chief of the National Cancer Institute’s PDQ Supportive Care Editorial Board. He was named a fellow of Division 28 of the American Psychological Association (Psychopharmacology & Substance Abuse) and awarded a Mayday Fund Fellowship in Pain and Society.

An author of more than 120 journal articles, 60 book chapters, and 59 abstracts, he speaks nationally and internationally on pain, addiction, and the pain/addiction interface. Dr. Passik received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the New School for Social Research, New York, and was a chief fellow, Psychiatry Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

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