National Harbor, Md.—The best long-term solution to the opioid epidemic is to educate future clinicians, said Kevin Zacharoff, MD, FACIP, FACPE, FAAP. Yet, only about 4% of medical schools have a pain medicine curriculum, and fewer still include substance use disorders and addiction.
At the 2020 annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, Dr. Zacharoff, an expert on chronic pain and opioid