CHRONIC PAIN RESET Podcast - with Afton Hassett

Episode 36 | Amy Bohnert, PhD, MHS – THE DESIRE TO BE PAINLESS

Dr. Afton L. Hassett

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/

COMPASS
 https://www.michiganmedicine.org/news-release/trial-and-error-targeted-precision-179m-grant-accelerates-u-m-mental-health-research 

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.

https://youtu.be/pp82-N3Z_4s

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