This is a national web broadcast provided by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and sponsored by the local ACS organization. The event is produced by Chemical & Engineering News and features leading experts in addiction and the chemistry of opiates from organizations including the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Genentech.
Join your colleagues for this special broadcast to discover what makes these compounds so addictive, the treatments and medications that are being used to help those who suffer, and profile the work that chemists are doing to make prescription pain killers safer and harder to abuse. The power of chemistry can be used to fight this rising addition.
