Dr. Mishka Terplan talks about how developing addiction to opioids and other drugs vary across gender, including how the rate of death for women is higher than for men. Dr. Terplan is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychiatry and the Associate Director of Addiction Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The From Research to Recovery Town Hall brings together speakers from across the country to address mental health, substance use and other facets of behavioral and emotional health.
To find out more, visit http://www.cobe.vcu.edu/cobe-town-hall