CHRONIC PAIN RESET Podcast - with Afton Hassett
Chronic Pain Reset explores the science and ideas that will help people with chronic pain from arthritis, autoimmune disease, back pain or fibromyalgia and many more lead lives that feel more hopeful with less pain and greater joy.
Join Dr. Afton Hassett when she sits down with fascinating people ranging from expert pain researchers to those with lived experiences for conversations that are informative, inspirational, and often funny. Each guest will share fresh ideas and actionable strategies that could be game changers.
CHRONIC PAIN RESET Podcast - with Afton Hassett
Episode 36 | Amy Bohnert, PhD, MHS – THE DESIRE TO BE PAINLESS
This episode opens with the theme song from the musical Painless.*
Amy Bohnert, PhD, MHS is a professor of anesthesiology and co-director of the opioid research institute at the University of Michigan. She studies opioid safety, chronic pain, and mental and behavioral health conditions. Dr. Bohnert has served on several key national committees, including for the National Academies of Science and Medicine and on the Stanford-Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis.
See Dr. Bohnert’s links below:
Opioid Prescribing and Engagement Network (OPEN)
Michigan OPEN
https://michigan-open.org/
SAMHSA
https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help
*Special thanks to Dr. Chad Brummett, Co-Director of the Overdose Prevention
Engagement Network known as OPEN, also at the University of Michigan. OPEN aims to apply a preventative approach to the opioid epidemic in the United States.
NBC’s Harry Smith reports for The TODAY Show. Unique Musical Aims To Raise Awareness Of Opioid Risk To Teens Performers from the epidemic musical theatre program at the University of Michigan are working in a joint venture with Michigan Medicine to raise awareness about addiction issues through a unique performance.
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