Doctor to talk about painkiller addictions and pain management
On Thursday, June 18, Partnership Carson City and Sierra Nevada Forums will host a guest speaker, Dr. Mel Pohl, who will discuss “Medications, Addiction and Pain Management.”
The public forum begins at 6 p.m. and doors open at 5:30 p.m. Admittance is free but donations are accepted. The location is the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 449 W. King St., Carson City. On Friday, June 19, Dr. Pohl will make a second presentation at noon in Carson City specifically for criminal-justice professionals. For more information on either session, call Kathy Bartosz, 775-841-4730.
Dr. Pohl is a family practitioner who helped create the Las Vegas Recovery Center’s Pain Recovery Program. Dr. Pohl is medical director at LVRC and has been certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine.
Prescription drugs are the first drug teenagers are trying, according to Dr. Pohl. They get them most often from parents’ medicine cabinets.
He has worked specifically with opioid dependence, especially since the rise of painkiller misuse over the last 10 years. “Taking people off medications and teaching them to live a better life is the work of my clinical team,” said Dr. Pohl.
He has been an addiction specialist for more than 30 years. “It has felt more like a calling than a profession,” he said.
Dr. Pohl also works in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Nevada School of Medicine as a clinical assistant professor.
For more information, see the Partnership Carson City website here and its Facebook page here. Sierra Nevada Forums provides citizens with fact-based, verifiable information to assist them in making well informed decision on issues of importance to our community and beyond. Visit its website here and Facebook page here.
— Writer Emily Ammerman is a junior at Carson High School. She is also a journalist for Partnership Carson City and plans to pursue a career in journalism.
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