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Recording Available – Critical Issue: A 50 State View of the Opioid Epidemic

July 14, 2017

Update: July 19, 2017

If you missed our Facebook Live broadcast of the panel presentation Critical Issue: A 50 State View of the Opioid Epidemic, you can view below or on our NFDA Facebook page.

Special thanks to our panelists, Dr. Steven Bentsen, Charles Castiglia, Phil Pares and Keith Walker for sharing information and their personal stories on this important issue.


This Wednesday, July 19 at 9:45 a.m. CT, NFDA will be going live on Facebook with Critical Issue: A 50 State View of the Opioid Epidemic, a panel discussion taking place during the 2017 NFDA Leadership Conference. Funeral directors are facing many serious issues related to opiates and other substance abuse in their businesses and communities. An expert panel will provide critical information and ideas for confronting this matter from the funeral director's perspective. The panel includes:

  • Dr. Steven Bensten, Chief Medical Officer for Beacon Health Options and a member of the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Funeral directors Charles Castiglia of Lakeside Memorial Funeral Home in New York and Keith Walker of Walker Funeral Homes in Ohio
  • Phil Pares, a former school principal, whose son and daughter lost their lives to addiction
  • Moderator: Dutch Nie of Nie Family Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Michigan

Tuning in is easy! Be sure you “like” the NFDA page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NationalFuneralDirectorsAssociation). Visit the page at 9:45 a.m. CT to view the broadcast; if you have notifications enabled for the NFDA page enabled, you will likely receive one when the broadcast begins.

We hope you will join us for this very important discussion.

 

 

 

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NFDA is the world's leading and largest funeral service association, serving 19,700 individual members who represent more than 10,000 funeral homes in the United States and 49 countries around the world. NFDA is the trusted leader, beacon for ethics and the strongest advocate for the profession. NFDA is the association of choice because it offers funeral professionals comprehensive educational resources, tools to manage successful businesses, guidance to become pillars in their communities and the expertise to foster future generations of funeral professionals. NFDA is headquartered in Brookfield, Wis., and has an office in Washington, D.C.

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