Opioid Epidemic

We, as clinicians, are uniquely positioned to turn the tide on the opioid epidemic - Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General

Opioid Epidemic

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BEGINNING in the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies selling high-dose opioids seized upon a notion, based on flimsy scientific evidence, that regardless of the length of treatment, patients would not become addicted to opioids. It has proved to be one of the biggest mistakes in modern medicine.

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