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The Opioid Epidemic: What is the Physician’s Responsibility?

from AMA Wire

The Opioid Epidemic: What is the Physician’s Responsibility? AMA Wire In the mid-to-late 1990s, manufacturers of prescription opioids assured physicians that these drugs would not make patients with pain become patients with substance use disorders. As a result, some physicians prescribed opioids without appropriate regard for their addictiveness. This contributed to prescription and street opioid misuse that has reached alarming proportions. With a multiyear public health emergency declaration for opioids, there is an ongoing need for physicians to understand the ethics involved in this crisis. READ MORE

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