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I am joined in this episode by journalist Lauren Aguirre, an award-winning science journalist, to explore the neuroepidemiology work of neurologist Jed Barash and colleagues which revealed the existence of a silent epidemic of what is now named opioid associated amnestic syndrome.
Lauren chronicled the onset and progress of the epidemic using the two index cases she described in her book. She narrated the way Barash and colleagues went about convincing the public health authorities and the CDC about the existence of the epidemic, and how they got the neurology community to pay attention to it.
We discussed the related anecdotes that Lauren used to complement her book, especially that of Patient HM, just as we explored the way that the research in opioid associated amnesia has progressed since it was established as a neurological ent ...