Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how
opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of
opioids and lead to
deadly overdoses.
In this episode of CASconversations, AUSA Spector talks about the alarming increase in
opioid overdoses in Connecticut, the
deadly rise in Fentanyl use, the urgent need for educating students and parents, and the free training and resources available to schools.