Backstories on the US Opioid Epidemic. Good Intentions Gone Bad, an Industry Gone Rogue, and Watch Dogs Gone to Sleep
2018
This article from the American Journal of Medicine reviews the several factors that have contributed to the opioid epidemic in the United States. In analyzing the factors that promoted the escalation of opioid use in the U.S., the article reviews several key backstories in the overall picture of the country’s opioid crisis, including failures in oversight of opioid manufacture and use, the rise of the pain movement and the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, lack of physician education on addictive drugs, deceptive marketing practices, and more.
Source:
deShazo RD et al. Backstories on the US Opioid Epidemic. Good Intentions Gone Bad, an Industry Gone Rogue, and Watch Dogs Gone to Sleep. The American Journal of Medicine 2018; 131(6): 595-601. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.12.045.