National Expert on Drug Addiction Opens Addiction Symposium

Upstate Medical University, Medical Alumni Auditorium of Weiskotten Hall

One of the nation’s foremost authorities on drug addiction will address the nation’s opioid epidemic in a special video cast to be screened by Upstate Medical University Nov. 28 at 9 a.m. in the Medical Alumni Auditorium of Weiskotten Hall. Nora D. Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health who is known for her research demonstrating that drug addiction is a disease of the human brain, will present an hour-long presentation of the opioid epidemic. The presentation is open to the public.