Awareness of stigma as an impediment to treatment has grown in the last two decades. In the wake of America's opioid epidemic—when strategic, deceitful marketing, promotion and overprescription of addictive painkillers resulted in millions of individuals unwittingly becoming addicted—the general publi...
WHEN LESS IS MORE: Reforming the Criminal Justice Response to the Opioid EpidemicGiftos, JonathanTesema, LelloJudges' Journal
Those who crafted the law not only received thousands of dollars in drug lobby campaign contributions but also masterfully slid it underneath the clueless eyes of a Congress and President who did not even bother to read it. Worst of all, either due to collusion with the drug lob...
However, providers can’t seem to agree on how to strike a balance. The conversation even among healthcare providers has too often conflated the legitimate needs of those living with chronic pain with the imperative that we do a better job of tackling the growing epidemic of opi...
The fivefold increase in opioid deaths between 2000 and 2017 rivals even the COVID-19 pandemic as a health crisis for America. Why did it happen? Measures of deCutler, David M.Glaeser, Edward L.Social Science Electronic Publishing
When two health emergencies cross paths: Current developments in the opioid epidemic in British ColumbiaKhan, Wajid I.UBC Medical Journal