I was honored to be the keynote speaker at the recent symposium held at Eastern Connecticut College, Moving Forward: Community Dialogues on the Opioid Epidemic. Thanks to the organizers for putting on a great event. I was impressed at the almost universal recognition among the participants that the best way out of this crisis was to recognize it as a public health issue, not a criminal one, and that ending stigma and treating all as members of the community and not outcasts were the only true paths forward.
Experts on opioid epidemic open community dialogue at Eastern