Pain and Addiction in Specialty and Primary Care: The Bookends of a Crisis

Joseph R Schottenfeld¹, Seth A Waldman¹, Abbe R Gluck¹+1

• ¹Joseph Schottenfeld, is a member of the Yale Law School class of 2019. Abbe R. Gluck, J.D., is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School. Seth A. Waldman, M.D., is Director, Division of Pain Management, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management, at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. He completed his his internships in surgery and medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School - Beth Israel Medical Center, his residency training in anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School - Beth Israel Hospital, and his fellowship training in pain management at Massachusetts General Hospital. Daniel G. Tobin, M.D., F.A.C.P., is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven, CT) and the Medical Director for the Yale-New Haven Hospital SRC Adult Primary Care Center. He earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College (New York, NY) before completing his Internal Medicine Internship and Residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital.