Trauma

Healing Trauma Through Storytelling & Justice in Addiction Medicine

VIDEO – TED TALKS MATTER –

Aug. 1, 2024 – Cara Poland is an internationally respected mentor, teacher, physician, researcher and advocate for advancements in addiction medicine and associate professor in the Michigan State University. Her work and advocacy is changing the way healthcare professionals treat addiction and improving the systems behind the treatment. In this moving TEDxMSU talk, Poland shares her unexpected path to becoming an addiction specialist, which was shaped by profound personal losses including the death of her mother to a rare disease and her brother to suicide.

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