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Steven D. Passik


Steven D. Passik

Collegium Pharmaceuticals, USA

Biography

After a 25 year academic and clinical career as a pain and addiction trained psychologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, University of Kentucky and Vanderbilt University, Dr. Passik spent the past 4 years in the toxicology and most recently the pharmaceutical industry. His research has focused on psychiatric aspects of cancer and non-cancer pain and symptom management and the interface of pain management and addiction. He has served as editor and reviewer for multiple journals in pain and psycho-oncology. He has authored over 200 scholarly publications.

Abstract

Abstract : Non medical use of prescription opioids by young adults for the self treatment of chronic pain: a national shame and an example of the crisis in opioid therapy in the United States