Are physicians really to blame for the opioid addiction epidemic?

During my training in the 70s, heroin use dominated our substance abuse horizon.  We saw many patients with IV drug-related complications.  We saw heroin overdoses. For the next 30+ years, we rarely heard about heroin.  Over the past 10 years we have seen increasing opiate abuse, but the opiates came from prescriptions.  Over the past […]

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