4 steps to reversing the epidemic of opioid use disorders

(By Brian D. Sites and Matthew A. Davis for STAT)

Health care professionals share a common and lofty goal: to minimize their patients’ pain. But what if we’re hurting more people than we’re helping? That may be the sad reality of the opioid epidemic, one driven in part by doctors’ desire to do good. Continue reading article here…

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