The dilemmas surrounding obliviogenic (medication enhancing detachment) are (a) familiar for most clinicians and scholars engaged in narrative theory and practice, and (b) subject of a wider political debate.

Opioids for the masses have become obsolete and the agenda for change promotes lifestyle changes instead of daily dependence on obliviogenic prescription drugs. Breaking up dependency is often fraught with relational violence.

This session is dedicated to explore these conflictual relationships.

Rob Poole is Professor for Social Psychiatry and shifted his professional focus from heroin-users in the inner city of Liverpool to the chemical copers of North West Wales.

Graham Dunthorne is one of the few GPs in the British Pain Society and is therefore involved in conversations with patients and colleagues about pain that does not go away.

PLEASE NOTE - the event starts at 3pm and will be preceded by the ANPH AGM at 2pm

This event will be hosted on Zoom, is free to ANPH members and costs £15 for non-members. Please click here to email us to confirm attendance, get the Zoom link, and for non-members for details of how to pay.