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Cannabinoid Use in 2019

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  • When November 1, 2019, 8:30 am – 12 pm
  • Where UNC School of Social Work
    Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building - 325 Pittsboro St #3550, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
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  • Hosted by UNC PrimeCare
  • Cost Free

This topical workshop will provide participants with up-to-date information about cannabinoid use in North Carolina and in the United States. Specific emphasis will be on medicinal use, policy guidelines and social and health implications.

Presenters include:
Dr. Marian Newton, Shenandoah University School of Nursing
Dr. David Newton, Shenandoah University School of Pharmacy
FBI Chemist Hope Copeland, United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dr. Cheryl Giscombe, UNC School of Nursing, Moderator

The workshop is sponsored by UNC-PrimeCare and UNC-PrimeCare — OUD, HRSA-funded projects at the UNC School of Social Work in collaboration with the UNC School of Nursing. Academic partners include UNC
Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and UNC Hospital.

Attendance is free and CEs offered.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR BOTH IN PERSON AND STREAMING PARTICIPANTS

Registration and Additional Information: ssw.unc.edu/sswevents

For more information
Meryl Kanfer, LCSW, mkanfer@unc.edu

For help with registration
Carol Ann Hincy, chincy@email.unc.edu

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About Sarah Verbiest

DrPH, MSW, MPH, Director of the Jordan Institute for Families, John A. Tate Early Career Scholars for Children in Need Professorship, Executive Director, Center for Maternal and Infant Health.

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325 Pittsboro St., CB#3550
First & Second Floors
Tate, Turner Kuralt Building
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3550
919-843-2455
sarah_verbiest@unc.edu

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