opioid crisis

It is now indisputable that the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, United States, 2016 was a catastrophe by any measure.

"Controlled Prescription Drugs (CPDs) ... are still responsible for the most drug-involved overdose deaths and are the second most commonly abused substance in the United States."

If you watched professional wrestling in the 1960s it would be difficult not to remember William "Haystacks" Calhoun.

In 2017, more than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses.

The “opioid epidemic” consistently addressed in the news, by politicians and throughout social media conflates many aspects of the issue, often speaking interchangeably about prescription medications and illicit drugs.

Some people just don't get it. Which is fine.

In a just published perspective piece in The New England Journal of Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D.

For healthcare to improve, we need to look at the outcomes of our actions and activities, identify the source of our errors and do better.

The opioid epidemic is center stage when it comes to political agendas, media stories and national discussion.

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