Join us at the PBS39 Studios on September 25th at 7pm for a Community Conversation on Opioids and the Baby Boomer Generation.
Doors open at 6pm. Doors close promptly at 6:50pm.
The discussion will focus on adults with chronic pain or health issues who became addicted and/or dependent on opioids. Also, we will examine how opioids have changed the family structure by forcing older adults to care for their opioid-dependent children and their grandchildren. The panel will include two doctors. Ming R. Wang, M.D. is an addiction medicine physician who oversees the older adult’s unit and women’s care at Caron Treatment Centers. The other is Thomas M. Nappe, DO, the Medical director of Toxicology at St. Luke’s University Health Network, who will speak to body’s reaction to drugs, the recovery process, and how first responders can use Naloxone to save lives.