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Invited lectures and conference presentations by Joseph Friedman, MD, PhD on overdose, the illicit drug supply, drug checking, and addiction.

Invited lectures, keynotes, and conference presentations. Conferencias invitadas, conferencias magistrales y presentaciones en congresos. Los títulos y lugares se muestran en su idioma original.

2027

  • Chill Packs: Evaluating Self-Administered Olanzapine to Prevent Repeat ED Visits for Methamphetamine-Induced Psychosis
    Poster Presentation. American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. January 2027.

2026

  • Cracking the Black Box of the Illicit Drug Supply: Clinically Relevant Insights from Drug Checking Data in San Diego
    Poster Presentation. American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. November 2026. 3rd Place Top Trainee Poster.
  • Nearcasting the Overdose Crisis: Key Insights from US Drug Dynamics
    Paper Presentation. American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. November 2026.
  • Engaging with the Media to Promote Academic Research
    Invited guest speaker. UC San Diego Health Sciences Communications Media Relations Training for faculty, San Diego, CA. October 2026.
  • Drug Checking San Diego: Site Overview
    Invited presentation at National Institute of Standards and Technology Rapid Drug Analysis and Research (RaDAR) Program.
  • Nearcasting the Overdose Crisis: Key Insights from US Drug Dynamics
    Keynote Presentation. UCSD Department of Psychiatry Judd Symposium. June 2026.
  • Blending Ethnography and Drug Checking to Track Rapid Shifts in the North American Overdose Crisis
    Wenner-Gren 2026 Ethnography in Addiction Working Group Conference. May 2026.
  • The Public Health Risks of Counterfeit Pills
    Invited presentation for Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey. April 2026.

2025

  • Xylazine prevalence and concentration in the Los Angeles fentanyl market, 2023–2025
    Oral Presentation. Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction. November 2025.
  • Drug Checking Demystified: A Comprehensive Overview of the Chemical Analysis of Drugs Evaluation
    Workshop Presentation. Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction. November 2025.
  • Estimating the Effective Daily Dose Ingested Among Illicit Methamphetamine Consumers in Los Angeles
    Poster Presentation. American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. November 2025.
  • Assessing an ICD-10 code approach for estimating xylazine-involved overdose deaths in the United States
    Oral Presentation. American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. November 2025.
  • The Epidemiology of the Fourth Wave: Racial, Geographic, and Substance-Specific Trends in Polysubstance Deaths
    Invited Symposium Presentation. College on Problems of Drug Dependence Annual Meeting. June 2025.
  • Estimating the Effective Daily Dose Ingested Among Illicit Methamphetamine Consumers in Los Angeles
    Poster Presentation. College on Problems of Drug Dependence Annual Meeting. June 2025.
  • Quetiapine, A Novel Additive to the Illicit Heroin Supply in Los Angeles
    Poster Presentation. American Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Meeting. April 2025.
  • Understanding Drugs of Emerging Importance in the U.S. Overdose and Addiction Crises
    Presentation to the HIV Prevention Trials Network Substance Use Scientific Committee

2024

  • Blending Ethnography and Epidemiology to Track Rapid Shifts in the North American Overdose Crisis
    Invited presentation to the 2024 Substance Use Disorder Modeling Conference in Boston.
  • Xylazine From Philly to Tijuana:Epidemiological Trends and Clinical Management
    Invited lecture to Southern California Addiction Medicine Consortium.
  • Preventing and Addressing Xylazine Use in a Behavioral Health or Clinical Setting
    Invited Lecture to SAMHSA State Program.
    Video
  • Xylazine Spreads Across North America: Epidemiology and Clinical Implications
    Invited lecture to Southern California Substance Addiction Research Training Retreat
  • Whose Death Gets Counted? Whose Suffering? Ethical and Logistical Challenges in Global Health Surveillance
    and the Measurement of Inequalities Invited Lecture to Global Health Course at UCLA for Dr. Kalofonos.

2023

  • Novel Synthetics, Polysubstance Use, Counterfeit Pills, and Social Inequalities: Rapid Shifts in the US Overdose Crisis
    Invited lecture to UW Boise Department Grand Rounds Lecture Series
  • La Situación de las Adicciones en la Frontera y la Crisis del Fentanilo” (in Spanish)
    Invited Presentation at the Baja California Association for Public Health, Tijuana, Mexico
  • The Overdose Crisis in California: Key Trends
    Invited presentation at California Senate Joint Hearing on Public Safety and Health
  • The Fourth Wave of the US Overdose Crisis: Counterfeiting, Novel Synthetics, and Rising Racial/Ethnic Inequalities
    Invited presentation to the UCLA Department of Internal Medicine Substance Abuse Research Training Program (SART)

2022

  • Xylazine Spreads Across the United States: primary care and epidemiology
    Invited presentation to University of South Carolina Addiction Medicine Fellowship
  • The Fourth Wave of the US Overdose Crisis
    Invited Presentation at CDU Substance Abuse Research Training Program
  • Xylazine Spreads Across the United States
    Invited Presentation at National Coordinating Call for Veterans Affairs Pharmacists
  • Far From a ‘White Problem’: Addressing the Surging Overdose Crisis as a Racial Justice Issue
    Invited Presentation at the Opioid Use in Primary Care Conference 2022, in Toronto, Canada
  • The Fourth Wave of the US Overdose Crisis:Rapid Shifts, Structural Drivers, and Systemic Inequalities in US Drug Policy
    Invited Presentation to Harm Reduction Los Angeles.
    Video

2021

  • Structural Shifts or Business as Usual? An Ethnographic-Epidemiological Assessment of COVID-19-Related Changes to the Risk Environment for People who Inject Drugs in Tijuana, Mexico
    Presentation at UCSD CFAR Conference.
    Video
  • Tracking rising racial/ethnic disparities in overdose mortality: Leveraging multiple data streams and now-casting for real-time disparities-oriented surveillance
    Podium Presentation at APHA 2022.
    Video
  • Policing and public health: Conflicting responses to the overdose crisis in California’s central valley
    Podium Presentation at APHA 2022.
  • EMS-observed out of hospital mortality: A bellwether for monitoring pandemics and other rapid epidemiological shifts
    Podium Presentation at APHA 2022.
  • Sobredosis, Disparos, y Nuevas Drogas Sintéticas: Mercados Ilícitos de Drogas en Norte América
    Presentation at Universidad Central de Venezuela.
  • COVID-19 and the Drug Overdose Crisis: Uncovering the Deadliest Months in the United States, January-July 2020
    Presentation to Big Southwest Node CTN Journal Club.

2020

  • Mortalidad Extrahospitalaria Durante la Pandemia del COVID-19: Un Estudio Comparativo de 18 Ciudades y Países
    Invited presentation at the week of FACISALUD, the First Virtual Meeting of Health Sciences, at la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC).
  • The introduction of fentanyl on the US-Mexico border: An ethnographic account triangulated with drug checking data from Tijuana
    Podium presentation at APHA, in San Francisco, California (virtual).
  • Assessing the social impact of not-for-profit hospitals in the post-ACA period: “charity”, profit, Medicaid provision and medical segregation
    Podium presentation at APHA, in San Francisco, California (virtual).
  • Experiences of arbitrary and abusive policing among people who inject drugs: A mixed methods study in California’s central valley
    Podium presentation at APHA, in San Francisco, California (virtual).
  • covidcompare: Predictive Performance of International COVID-19 Mortality Forecasting Models
    Panel session “Open data, Open Code, and Reproducible Research.” At: Data Science Conference on COVID-19.

2019

  • Disparities in Violent Injury in Los Angeles: A Baseline Assessment for a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program
    Podium presentation at APHA, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Non-Profit Healthcare Systems and Medical Segregation
    Podium presentation at APHA, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Structural Vulnerability to Narcotics-Driven firearm violence: An ethnographic and epidemiological study of Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican inner-city.
    Poster Presentation at the Spirit of 1848 Caucus, at APHA, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Mapeo de las Principales Enfermedades en Coahuila
    Invited presentation at “Detección temprana de enfermedades crónicas” conference in Coahuila, Mexico.
  • Global Trends and Forecasts in Educational Inequality
    Presentation at Center for Global Health Inequalities kickoff event in Trondheim, Norway.
  • Datos Epidemiológicos: Justificando una propuesta con evidencia cuantitativa
    Guest lecture to MPH students at la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC).
  • Ending Medical Segregation in LA
    Presentation at the 2019 UCLA Grad Slam Finals. Placed third.
  • Social Determinants of Diabetes and Health Disparities
    Lecture to the first-year medical students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Co-taught with Dr. David Schriger.

2018

  • Why Is the Opioid Epidemic So White? Racial and Socioeconomic Trends in Controlled Substance Prescription
    Oral presentation at All-LA 2018 Emergency Medicine Conference: Pain Management and the Opioid Crisis.
  • The Shocking Social Patterns of Prescription Drug Use
    Presentation at the 2018 UCLA Grad Slam Finals.
    Video
  • 2 laws, 1 City: Quantifying Disparities in Access to Mexico City’s Public Abortion Program
    Oral presentation at Population Association of America (PAA) annual meeting.
  • Measuring the Distribution of Education: Global Trends, Forecasts, and Inequality Metrics
    Oral presentation at PAA annual meeting.

2017

  • Travel Time, Local Legality, and Socio-Economic Status Affect Access to Legal Abortion in Mexico City
    Poster presentation at North American Forum on Family Planning annual meeting.
  • Inequality in Maternal Education and Child Mortality
    Poster presentation at PAA annual meeting.
  • Improving the Comparability of Educational Attainment Estimates: Developing a method to Reliably Crosswalk Binned Education Data to Single-Year Values
    Poster presentation at PAA annual meeting. Winner of best poster in session award.

2013

  • Whet your Apatite: A Dietary Reconstruction Using Stable Carbon Isotopes from Human Tooth Enamel at Tell Dothan
    Poster presentation at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting.
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