Today’s Opioid Addiction and Overdose Epidemic: How We Can Make a Difference

• By: Jeffrey Selzer, MD Medical Society of the State of New York
• January 1st, 2020
• addiction treatment access, evidence-based care, healthcare workforce training, medication-assisted treatment, opioid epidemic, opioid use disorder, overdose prevention, stigma reduction
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The opioid addiction and overdose epidemic that has ravaged America for two decades now has left almost no one untouched. From 1999 to 2017, more than 400,000 people in the United States have died from overdoses related to opioids. According to a poll by the American Psychiatric Association,...