– Photo courtesy of Wayne Law
The Levin Center at Wayne State University Law School recently hosted Michael Botticelli, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Botticelli, who has met with stakeholders across the country to highlight innovative solutions to the opioid epidemic. He joined former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin and Detroit-area physicians and treatment center providers to call for community solutions to this epidemic, including expanding access to medication-assisted treatment such as buprenorphine. The session was at the Community Health and Social Services Center. Later in the day, at WSU’s School of Medicine, Botticelli spoke to about 150 medical, law, nursing, pharmacy and social work students and faculty to increase awareness of opioid addiction and new treatment alternatives. Other speakers in the morning session were J. Ricardo Guzman, CEO of Community Health and Social Services and chairman of the National Association of Community Health Centers; Dr. Jamie Hall, a provider with Community Health and Social Services and senior staff physician in the Department of Family Medicine of the Henry Ford Medical Group; Levin, chair of the Levin Center at Wayne Law and the law school’s distinguished legislator in residence; Barbara McQuade, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan; and Dr. George Sawabini, a Detroit-area physician and registered pharmacist who is certified to prescribe medication-assisted therapy for opiate addiction and is board certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
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