PSYC 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar

FDR: SS3
Credits: 3

First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year class standing. Topical description when offered.

Fall 2018, PSYC 180-01: First-Year Seminar: The Opioid Crisis (3). First-Year Seminar. Prerequisite: First-year class standing only. An exploration of how the neuroscientific mechanisms of pain and clinical pain management interconnect with policy and practice in the realms of healthcare, big pharma, legislation, and law enforcement. We also discuss how these interconnections have contributed to the widespread compulsive misuse of opioid pain-killing drugs that has become a national crisis in the past several years. (SS3). Stewart.