At today's Tuesday Topics in the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building, Mark Winsberg will present today's Tuesday Topics lecture titled Opioid Crisis Deepens.

The abuse of and addiction to opioids such as heroin, morphine and prescription pain relievers affects the health, social and economic welfare of our entire region. Find out about the complexity of opioid addiction as a brain disease and the scientific insight needed to balance the negative and growing impact of opioid abuse on health and mortality with the fundamental role of prescription opioid pain relievers in healing and reducing human suffering.

[source: Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library website, 2017-Jan-9]