The Opioid Epidemic: America’s Deadly Addiction

Opioid addiction is a heartbreaking national epidemic. We’ll help you understand how we got here—and how we can get out.

Overview

Course No. 9770

Follow one of the top cognitive neuroscientists to discover how opioids affect our brains and how they have contributed to an alarming crisis of overuse and even death in this country.

Video Lectures

01: The Opioid Epidemic: America’s Deadly Addiction

Drug overdose is the single most common cause of death for people under 50 years old in the US, with numbers skyrocketing in the last two decades to an average of 175 deaths per day. Professor Thad Polk examines how pharmaceutical practices and opioid use have fueled this devastating public health crisis.