Our nation was in the midst of a public health crisis before COVID-19 ever claimed a victim: the epidemic of opioid addiction. An examination of the response to COVID-19 offers a lens to consider the data monitoring and clinical supports needed to most effectively address our opioid crisis. Please Register to attend.
Patterson Silver Wolf focuses his research on evidence-based interventions to improve outcomes for addiction treatment programs in community-based service settings. He also studies factors that can improve academic success rates for underrepresented minority college students. Before entering academics, he spent more than 15 years providing clinical services in the substance use disorder treatment field, and has sustained a life in recovery since 1989.