Topic: epidemiology

But the repair isn’t cheap, and the outcomes require some patience. And that’s why efforts often fail. America gives up too early. 

It reminds me of the addicts who convince themselves that somehow, despite all the pain of the past, this time things will be different.

So if… the real problem at this late stage isn’t the lack of a plan but the absence of motivation to implement it– then what’s in the way?

We should anticipate that many patients with opioid disorders will also be in treatment for some chronic medical disorder.

There’s a civil rights issue: Over time, suspension of those rights can (and often does) become the new normal.

Of course, we still lose several hundred thousand people annually. But that’s actually progress.

We were warned about such risks, but went ahead anyway.

We don’t have the option of simply forgoing the use of opioids in medicine because, frankly, we don’t have a viable alternative.

There’s long been evidence of a reciprocal relationship between cocaine and heroin use.

America consumes the vast majority of the world’s opioids.