Science With Simi
Mornings with Simi
English - November 21, 2019 19:47 - 10 minutes - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBusiness News News Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Addictions are very complicated things, and they are different for every person. But what has some similarity is how they get started, and for so many people who become addicted to things like opioids - it’s about pain management.
It may have started with dealing with something physically painful and descended from there. But what if there was another way of managing that pain? Could we maybe prevent people from becoming addicted to opioids? Or even help them get off opioids?
It’s an idea that is being developed thanks to some research being done at the BC Centre on Substance Use. One of their ongoing studies looked at the ways in which addicts manage their pain, and the results were surprising - because they found a trend.
To learn more about that and how promising it is, we’re joined by Stephanie Lake, a PhD student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, and research associate at the BC Centre on Substance Use.
Guest: Stephanie Lake
PHD student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC
Research Associate at the BC Centre on Substance Use
Addictions are very complicated things, and they are different for every person. But what has some similarity is how they get started, and for so many people who become addicted to things like opioids - it’s about pain management.
It may have started with dealing with something physically painful and descended from there. But what if there was another way of managing that pain? Could we maybe prevent people from becoming addicted to opioids? Or even help them get off opioids?
It’s an idea that is being developed thanks to some research being done at the BC Centre on Substance Use. One of their ongoing studies looked at the ways in which addicts manage their pain, and the results were surprising - because they found a trend.
To learn more about that and how promising it is, we’re joined by Stephanie Lake, a PhD student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, and research associate at the BC Centre on Substance Use.
Guest: Stephanie Lake
PHD student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC
Research Associate at the BC Centre on Substance Use