David Patterson Silver Wolf | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis

Biography

David A. Patterson Silver Wolf has over 15 years of experience providing clinical services in the substance use disorder treatment field. Patterson Silver Wolf investigates how empirically supported interventions are implemented in community-based services, specifically as it relates to therapist and organizational characteristics.

He is the director of the Community-Academic Partnership on Addiction, which works with several St. Louis-based organizations to bring science to addiction services.

Patterson Silver Wolf is a faculty scholar in the Washington University Institute for Public Health, a faculty affiliate in the Center for Violence and Injury Prevention, and serves as training faculty for two NIH- funded (T32) training programs at the Brown School, including the Transdisciplinary Training in Addictions Research program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Patterson Silver Wolf also studies factors that improve underrepresented minority college students’ academic success. He is specifically interested in American Indian/Alaska Native health and wellness, particularly issues related to college retention.

At the Brown School he teaches substance abuse courses, chairs the American Indian and Alaska Native concentration in the Master of Social Work program, and works closely with Kathryn M. Buder Center Scholars.

WashU in the News

Wash U Professor Says President’s Opioid Declaration is Not Enough

KMOX-AM

David Patterson Silver Wolf, associate professor, Brown School.

Trump says opioids are an emergency, but it’s not the declaration some were looking for

USA Today

David Patterson Silver Wolf, associate professor, Brown School

Shame won’t solve the opiod crisis. Corporate dissembling only makes it worse

STAT

David Patterson Silver Wolf, associate professor, Brown School

America’s original artisans go back to the land

Newsweek

David Patterson Silver Wolf, associate professor, Brown School

Stories

Opioid overdose should be treated like attempted suicide: with an emergency hold

Any “brilliant idea” that does not permanently fund prevention and treatment infrastructures at the level needed to persistently address the devastating consequences of addiction should not be consider novel or a step in the right direction.

Do business concerns keep doctors from treating opioid addiction?

I’m coming to believe that the business side of the opioid epidemic might be the most powerful reason why so many practicing physicians remain below deck.

Medicine & Health

Medications to treat opioid addiction are effective, though not widely used

Although medications to treat opioid use disorder are safe and effective, most people who could benefit from these treatments do not receive them, finds a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Brown School’s David Patterson Silver Wolf was one of the authors of the report.

Campus & Community

Brown School launches substance use disorder clinic

The Brown School has partnered with Preferred Family Healthcare in St. Louis to launch the Community Academic Partnership on Addiction (CAPA), a teaching, learning and research clinic aimed at addressing substance use disorder. The Brown School’s David Patterson Silver Wolf serves as CAPA’s chief research officer.

Humanities & Society

The ‘new social work’ is performance-based practice, researcher suggests

Rather than social work practice being based solely on a therapist’s intuition and assumptions, social workers should consider a system of evaluation and measurement based on hard data, suggests a professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis.