Manny’s: Understanding Addiction and Recovery Night 1 – Harm Reduction

This event is night 1 of our four part Series on “Understanding Addiction and Recovery”

Join Mission Local managing editor and columnist Joe Eskenazi along with Dr. Daniel Ciccarone and Dr. Nicky Mehtani in a discussion about what harm reduction is, what it isn’t and why its demonization is not helpful or scientific.

Dr. Daniel Ciccarone is Professor, Family and Community Medicine at the University of California-San Francisco. He is a recognized international scholar on the medical, public health, and public policy dimensions of substance use, risk, and consequences.

Nicky Mehtani, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on the use of psychedelic therapies to treat addiction and psychological trauma, with an emphasis on expanding access to these emerging treatments for medically and socially complex populations disproportionately affected by systemic violence. Clinically, Dr. Mehtani specializes in Addiction and HIV Medicine.

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