The Pharmacist Impact on Drug Addiction Series 

The term substance abuse is commonly used to describe the hazardous or addictive use of psychoactive substances with either addictive, typically depressing or stimulating, or perception distorting properties.

The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), Fifth Edition, includes substance use disorders, typically considered addictions with severity categories, and substance–induced disorders, typically intoxication or withdrawal, in its Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders. 

Katie Taylor, PharmD has 20 years of experience in the strategy business consulting industry for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device clients coupled with 14 years experience as a critical care / cardiology inpatient clinical pharmacist.

Dr Taylor is currently adjunct faculty instructing both Drugs & Society and Medical Terminology. She serves as an experiential education preceptor at four pharmacy schools in the Northeast and is a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) since 2015 and hold a Pain Management certificate from NYSCHP.

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This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine, UCI, Master of Science in Pharmacology, learn more: https://sites.uci.edu/mspharmacology/