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Learning to Help Treat Substance Use Disorders: Student-Mentor Teams at the School of Medicine

medical students at UCSF

medical students at UCSF

When Elizabeth McCarthy and Jonathan Freise began medical school at UCSF in 2016, the opioid epidemic was making daily headlines. Every day in the US, around two dozen people were dying from overdoses involving prescription opioids. As future leaders in medicine, the students couldn’t look away. They knew they had to do something.

Read the full story here on the UCSF Campaign website.