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Podcast: The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
Episode: Interview #38: Addiction, the Opioid Epidemic and How to Save Lives (with Professor Sir John Strang)
Description: Professor Sir John Strang is a leading clinical academic. He is head of the Addictions Department at King’s College London and a Consultant Psychiatrist in addictions treatment for over 30 years.He is one of a small number of senior addictions researchers outside North America identified by ISI (the Institute for Scientific Analysis) as a “Highly Cited Author” with a rate of citation in the “top one half of one percent of all publishing researchers in the last two decades”. He developed and continues to expand the work on Take-Home Naloxone, a life-saving innovation for reducing o...