Jun 30 2020 74 mins 2
Dr. Scott Hadland is a pediatrician and addiction specialist at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine. Valerie and Carly talk with him about the importance of treating addiction during adolescence, medications for opioid use disorders, and associations between the pharmaceutical industry's opioid marketing and physicians' opioid prescribing. Valerie and Carly debate whether pharma has a hit out on Scott and nominate Scott for an official science superhero cape and magic policy wand. How does Harry Potter fit into the mix? Listen in to find out. Read more about Scott’s work here: https://www.bumc.bu.edu/care/faculty/scott-hadland/ Read about Scott's work on prescription marketing and overdose deaths at NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/health/opioids-doctors-overdose-deaths.html Follow Scott on Twitter: @DrScottHadland
