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Yale professors pursue progress on addiction medicine education at White House symposium
The opioid addiction and overdose crisis has spurred action among researchers, physicians, and policymakers to promote research and patient care on addiction. Last September, chief of general internal medicine Patrick O’Connor, the Dan Adams and Amanda Adams Professor of General Medicine at Yale, co-chaired a symposium on addiction medicine convened at the White House. The event brought together national leaders on addiction to discuss strategies to advance prevention and treatment of addiction in the United States.