Doctors Need A New Skill Set For This Opioid Abuse Treatment

(By Karen Shakerdge, Side Effects Public Media, for Kaiser Health News)

In a big hotel conference room near New York’s Times Square, six doctors huddle around a greasy piece of raw pork. They watch as addiction medicine specialist Michael Frost delicately marks the meat, incises it and implants four match-sized rods. Continue reading article here…..

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